iChat/iCal 10.6 Deployment via puppet/pkg/radmin etc
Hey there,
Following the research i did on iChat and iCal in 10.6, I came up with a way to deploy iChat/iCal without using MCX. I'm still not sure if iChat/iCal 10.6 MCX is broken out of the box.. I havent had any replies to my latest question.
Even though I might be the only person with broken MCX for these two apps, this manual method might suit some people in mixed environments who don't want the overhead of managing MCX, even via DSLocal.
I'm going to describe this method in general and with a puppet template, which should force kerberized iCal and iChat accounts to be managed for each workstation.
I could also provide some sorta lifecycle explanation/diagram for ManagedClient too, but I guess thats a separate article :)