EDA Showcase: Imaging & Patch Management for Mac OS X Clients using Windows Servers

by Charles Edge
Feb, 2011 Issue

Article Synopsis

In this article we will look at managing software updates in a scalable fashion. Mac OS X Server allows administrators to build images, prepared with any automations required to make the image functional and then to re-image client computers with that image. Mac OS X Server also allows for caching software updates that are available through the Software Update System Preference pane so that administrators can control which patches are deployed to client computers and so that Mac OS X clients do not saturate an environment's external bandwidth while downloading these patches.

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