Hi So I have a new task on my table: Deploy and bootstrap Macs So far we have installed and configured munki [1] to deploy software. Is working nice so far. + simple to install/use + server is just a webserver - maintaining the software packages and catalog will probably be time intensive (not specific to munki, general problem) For imaging and unattended installations DeployStudio [2] seems the way to go. But haven't used it yet. A bunch of questions for ya all: How are you guys managing your macs? Anybody here know what ID are up to? There once where rumors that they will have a fancy 'manage the mac tool' sometime real soon now ... Anybody implemented something like roaming profiles for mobile users? Quick and painless migration from machine to machine, e.g. when a laptop died? Anybody interested in sharing resources, e.g. maintain a munki repo together? Packaging software is stupid and boring. We could save a lot of time. Other thoughts, ideas? Please forward to your mac guy if he is not you or not on this list ;-) [1] http://code.google.com/p/munki/ [2] http://www.deploystudio.com/ Cheers, Steven -- Steven Armstrong Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zurich IT Management & Support Universitaetsstrasse 6, CAB/H/88 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 632 25 24