Re: Looking for tips and advice on properly imaging Macs

[nobrainer]

I’m just going to comment on #4…

Jamf Software’s Casper Suite was highly recommended to us, and we were told “a lot of companies have used other applications and then gone to Jamf’s, but they didn’t know of any that had Jamf and went to another application”

It’s a full end to end suite of applications from deployment, management, packaging, scripting, software updates, etc. It will track your any Apple inventory (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, etc), give you detailed data on each device, exportable inventory lists, etc.

They have excellent support, often getting back to you within minutes of asking a question to their direct support, as well as an awesome community of users (between AFP548 and Jamf’s mailing list, I have been able to get any question I can dream of answered quickly).

They integrate well with Adobe products and support Faronic’s DeepFreeze and PowerSave products natively.

They also offer services, where they will do your scripting, or packages, or images or whatever you want.

Bottom line, you get what you pay for, and I’ve yet to see a reason to move away from Casper/Jamf.