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Stuart · 01-09-2010, 22:46

Good luck Homer.

My happy thought? Work related, I'm afraid.

We've been using a program to deploy OSX called DeployStudio (which is a brilliant system if you have multiple Macs to install) for a couple of years. Because we already had another system for deploying Windows on the Macs, I never bothered investigating how it handles Windows installs.

This year development ceased on the system we were using. While it actually still works for Windows 7 (in my experience, anyway), I have up to 90 macs to deploy with this system (71 student machines which will be deployed using this system, and 19 staff machines which may or may not be deployed using this system).

The system had it's first major test today, which I was rather nervous about. It worked well on every one of the 30 machines I tried it on. Well, apart from a couple that wouldn't pick up IPs (which should be sorted by tomorrow).

And to think they wanted to throw out the elderly PowerMac G5 it's running on..

The downside is that it has a couple of bugs, for which I have had to find workarounds, but were fixed in the version released yesterday (unfortunately too late for me to consider upgrading the system before the start of term now).

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Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4 Good luck Homer. My happy thought? Work related, I'm afraid. We've been using a program to deploy OSX called DeployStudio (which is a brilliant system if you have multiple Macs to install) for a couple of years. Because we already had another system for deploying Windows on the Macs, I never bothered investigating how it handles Windows installs. This year development ceased on the system we were using. While it actually still works for Windows 7 (in my experience, anyway), I have up to 90 macs to deploy with this system (71 student machines which will be deployed using this system, and 19 staff machines which may or may not be deployed using this system). The system had it's first major test today, which I was rather nervous about. It worked well on every one of the 30 machines I tried it on. Well, apart from a couple that wouldn't pick up IPs (which should be sorted by tomorrow). And to think they wanted to throw out the elderly PowerMac G5 it's running on.. The downside is that it has a couple of bugs, for which I have had to find workarounds, but were fixed in the version released yesterday (unfortunately too late for me to consider upgrading the system before the start of term now).