Have you been in the situation where every summer holiday its best practice to reimage your whole school, but always skipped the Macs and left them with no latest updates and a clean install?
Well we can set up a solution which can install OS X and Windows without even leaving your office chair. Not only can our deployment solution image your computers it can also join your computers to a domain at the same time. So once its imaged you should not need to even enter the room.
For any deployment solution it requires no software which you will need to pay for. We use open source software which has proven to work time and time again in many environments. Please read below to find out about DeployStudio, a free and reliable deployment solution for OS X and Windows.
Deploy studio can be downloaded from http://www.deploystudio.com and its completely free to download and use with no hidden trial times or advertisements. Deploystudio has to offer the following.
- Deployment of OSX 10.4 – 10.6
- Deployment of Bootcamp WindowsXP/Vista/Windows 7
- Integration scripts to join clients to Apple server and Windows Active Directory
- Realtime activity of deployment
- Touchless deployment using the netboot service
- USB Deployment solution
- Plus many more.
If you decide to use deploystudio we can also train on how to manage your deploy studio setup as well as assist with your first image creation. Depending on your current network environment you can expect to roll out a dual boot solution within 30 minutes for a whole IT Suite.
