Ah, and that reminds me that Penn State has a Macintosh sysadmin conference every year. There are lots of presentations (free to download) on managing labs of machines, etc.
http://macadmins.psu.edu/conference/ Gil @boyonwheels On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I also seem to remember seeing a paper at either LISA or annual tech within > the last year or so on centrally managing Mac systems. > > David Lang > > > On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Gilbert Wilson wrote: > >> >> Before going down the path of purchasing third party solutions to >> manage your systems and/or firewalling your Macintosh population off >> from the rest of your network like they're some redheaded stepchild >> (no offense to Matt and our other redheaded colleagues!), take a look >> through Apple's documentation for 10.6 server. Yes, we're on Lion >> now, and many things have changed, but the 10.6 docs are more robust >> and complete. You should also take a look at the following Apple >> White Paper on managing 10.5 machines (again, it's changed a bit but >> the foundation is still there): >> >> >> http://images.apple.com/education/docs/Apple-ClientManagementWhitePaper.pdf >> >> Historically, MCX is the basis for a lot of the configuration of the >> Mac. In Lion there's a tool called "Profile Manager." Reading up on >> the historical MCX stuff, Open Directory integration, and the new >> Profile manager should help a lot. >> >> http://www.apple.com/support/lionserver/profilemanager/ >> >> Another good resource is Google's Macintosh Operations Team. They're >> on Google+ and have released a number of the tools they use as open >> source. >> >> Main Page: >> https://plus.google.com/113021614344742332063/posts >> >> Announcement with links to the tools they use: >> https://plus.google.com/u/0/109088229817689076273/posts/M3zHnfEQMUw >> >> Those links and terms should give you a great headstart and figuring >> out what it is you need to do to get things humming along nicely. >> >> >> Gil >> @boyonwheels >> >> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Tim Kirby <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Much to my surprise and contrary to many years of prior stance >>> to the contrary, a "fast track" project has appeared at $WORK >>> with a view to "supporting" Mac laptops as an alternative to >>> the Dell windows systems - certain area, in particular in >>> engineering, have seen a proliferation of people bringing in >>> their own systems and I guess there's a sense that the powers >>> that be would rather provide and support $WORK owned machines >>> than have a network full of home boxes. Things such as cost >>> and the like are understood and will be factored in so when >>> managers sign up for employees to have such machines they will >>> know the impact on their budget... >>> >>> The more interesting aspect is what constitutes "support"; >>> the windows guys perspective they wax lyrical about group >>> policies, imaging systems etc. etc. ... which leads me to >>> ask whether any of this body have any useful experience in >>> "managing" such machines. I'm open to pointers to useful >>> resources, but I'm particularly interested in anyone who is >>> actually "doing" this at some level. >>> >>> And offline responses are fine if you don't want to admit >>> to it in public :) >>> >>> TIA >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> ps. I actually use a MacBook Pro and know it well - I just >>> haven't spent much time looking at the enterprise >>> solutions out there and don't have much time to do the >>> legwork, hence I'm reaching out to the community... >>> -- >>> Tim Kirby [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >>> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >>> http://lopsa.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
