[Casper] Deploy Studio

[Dustin Dorey]

Several of the folks in my office including myself are going to an apple
"dog and pony show" later today and I know that deploy studio is one of
the topics they were going to cover.   I will see if anything worth
while comes out of it and let you know.   From what I gathered though is
that it was just an imaging solution.   Which would be fine in small
Deployments where the need to manage an inventory was not as high.  I
could see someone managing less than 50 macs using it in conjunction
with ARD.   but certainly not 5000 macs or any mass deployment that you
need to be able to support more than just re-imaging if there is a
problem.   I personally think that is the beauty of the casper suite,
it's more than just imaging.   Just my .02 cents though, and I'm not
very well versed on Deploy Studio other than whats on their website.

-Dusty-

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Dustin Dorey
Independent School District 196
Technology Support Cluster Specialist
14445 Diamond Path West
Rosemount, MN 55068
952|423|7971
dustin.dorey at district196.org

 

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 15:22 -0600, Thomas Larkin wrote:
> has anyone looked at this?  While I don't see anything it does that
> Casper Doesn't, it does do one really neat thing.   I supports PXE
> booting.  So, you can feasibly have PC clients netboot (or PXE boot as
> they call it) to it and image Windows or Linux to them.  This sounds
> very interesting for mixed client environments.  While, I have not
> played with it yet, I was curious if anyone on the list has used it
> with Casper or what not.   
> 
> 
> I mean if I could also use one server technology to image all of our
> Windows clients, that would be kind of neat.  You could then have one
> Xserve do it all.  Casper does have some, unsupported, but working
> tools to image Windows on a Mac.  I have used them and they do work.
>   
> 
> 
> I have way too much on my plate to even attempt looking at Deploy
> Studio, however, if anyone else has tinkered with it, what are your
> thoughts?  I was thinking if possible down the road I may run Deploy
> studio on my Xserves in each building for netboot and imaging the PCs
> only, and then keep Casper for the Macs.  I really like the auto run
> data and would not want to give that up. 
> 
> 
> http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html 
> 
> 
> Thoughts?  Experiences? 
> 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
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