deploy new image to 500 new macs?

wesley

wesley

wesley

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hi guys

we are getting about 500 new macs coming this summer. whats the best and quickest way to deploy a new image to all 500 macs?

all will be based on 1 single image

i've done WDS, MDT toolkit and SCCM on 1000+ PC's but this macs deployment is new to me and i'm up for the challenge

big job and am looking forward to it

any software you'd recommend to have alook, preferring free for education.

cheers
 
i think i should add more informations

we dont have any os x server. all macs will be standalone workstation connecting to network via DHCP.

so we want something to boot up the mac via USB or CD and download the new image from windows shared folder. is it possible?
 
thanks guys for information.

we have a large netapp storage and its very very fast and would like to use it to share the image on shared folder.

never knew about the disk utility could make/restore image from a network shared folder. will look into it later

shiver, is targetdisk mode in the disk utility?

the image will have 2 simple =account, administrator and student (limited account)

CS5, quark,, office 2013 and many others
 
college

lol i dont make the decision. top management made the final decision!

no osx server sorry and all macs will be standalone workstation.
 
i dont have the power to buy a software, it'll have to go to finance department, it'll take a while and most likely it'll be no

let forget the osx server for now. we currently have over 500 macs at the moment, without an osx server in last 5 years without any major problems.
 
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