Support guys, devs, and fellow admins:
In my Casper environment: a multi-office, multi-department, creative enterprise, I have need of the the ability to build Configurations, Smart Configurations, and Sub-Configurations underneath; nested smart configurations, or smart configurations of smart configurations.
In this environment, every Mac is imaged with the same Base Image, Office Suite, and Anti-Virus, and some other basic settings. After that, each individual office then has its own Base Config which always contains these items, but for multiple reasons has a different office-wide software loadout, and even after that a separate loadout for each department underneath that. I end up building 6-7 of the same Base Config for each office just to make some small or subtle change that one office has over another, but we’re all managed by the same Casper server. It would be immensely helpful if I could create a Base Config with those Core Items, and Smart Config for each office, and Sub-Configs for the individual departments/people.
My first reaction is obviously to build a compiled config of the Base, Office, and AV. But for us this defeats the purpose of using Casper. If Office or AntiVirus gets updated I need to rebuild and compile the image again. This is not a sufficient solution either. I know I’ve asked for this before at a Casper User’s Group and been told that you didn’t see the need, and I’m CC’ing the list because in a hope of drumming up support for a measure like this. I’m hoping that you can please consider this request for such large and diverse environments such as ours.
Respectfully,
