InstaUp2Date + AutoDMG
If you use InstaDMG/InstaUp2Date and are worried that your workflow is going to break sooner than later, swapping AutoDMG in for InstaDMG may be your best bet. This article shows you how to make it work.
Tag: InstaDMG
AutoDMG, a modern replacement for InstaDMG
At MacSysAdmin 2013, Per Olofsson started work on InstallESDtoDMG, a replacement for InstaDMG.
Deployment: A Pedagogical Manifest(o)
Last Fall, a discussion arose on the MacEnterprise list about deployment terminology, with the term “thin imaging” coming in as the winner for variety of (conflicting) definitions. (You can read the thread from the beginning or jump on when the discussion turns to terminology.
Preparing the Office 2011 SP3 Installer for InstaDMG
Office 2011 is a common application to get baked into an InstaDMG image (or any other pre-compiled, modular style image). There are a few quirks to installing Office 2011 in this way as it was made to be installed on a live system.
Skinning a Cat: Lots of Ways to Deploy Lion
The release of Mac OS X Lion dramatically changed how Apple distributed its desktop operating system.
Automating Enrollment of Lion into Profile Manager on OS X Server
Starting with OS X 10.7 (Lion), there has been a shift from managing via Workgroup Manager and Managed Profiles (“MCX”) to managing via Profile Manager and Configuration Profiles (.mobileconfig). Configuration Profiles can be managed in a variety of ways, but OS X Server 10.7 provides a simple and efficient tool to help centralize the management.
Understanding InstallESD.dmg, Recovery HD, and Lion Internet Recovery
If you’ve done any deployment work with OS X Lion, InstallESD.dmg is probably not a new concept for you. But just in case you haven’t, or just in case you need a quick refresher, with the release of OS X Lion, Apple completely changed its distribution method for Mac OS X.
Surviving Yearly OS X Releases
With Apple releasing updates to OS X every year, the Mac SysAdmin has yet another thing to worry about. As if increasingly frequent security updates and managing iOS devices were not enough to keep us busy, we must now add yearly releases to our work load.
I am a humble personal assistant, with reminders about InstaDMG
Hey folks,It's been a while since we InstaDMG-ers were at the forefront of people's minds, and it may seem like the whole IT landscape has changed. I wanted to briefly drop you a line with a few tidbits and subtle reminders.
Competition Time! – seeking a name for "kicker-replacement" (We have a Winner!)
You might have read some of our previous articles talking about using kicker to perform actions on network status changes.This was always an unsupported solution, and with Leopard it turns out that Apple no longer…