Management+of+Macintosh+Lab

**Management of a Macintosh Lab Kayser Hall 202 Facilitators: Kevin O'Neill Gretna Notetaker: Description: Talking Points: The how-to of macintosh lab management. Issues covered will be imaging of machines, server management and machine control. Software discussed and used will be OS X Server, DeployStudio and Apple Remote Desktop.**  

Notes Planning for a Lab What do you want for your lab, do you encourage creativity or lock things down so teachers can only do a fewer specified things. Server considerations Do you use network home directories? Tools DeployStudio Free, takes place of NetRestore. Allows for customized workflows, uses NetBoot to create and restore volumes. At Gretna, can reimage a 30 station lab in a half hour. Doing teacher macbooks one at a time (when there is a problem once the year starts.) takes six and a half minutes. Remote Desktop Use this tool to install the individual software apps, copy files out to multiple machines or just take care of the things I forget at earlier times. OS X Server