So i’ve had a little time to tinker with Apple’s new Mountain Lion Developer Preview 1, and so far I’m liking it. I wanted to run it in a Virtual Machine though, so that I didn’t risk losing what I had with my Lion installation.
Last month we had a look at setting up DeployStudio on a freshly built Server running 10.6. We configured a DeployStudio Admin account, Server Admin settings, including a repository for images and NetBoot for the network booting. In part 2 we will take a look at building a fresh client image, configuring some specifics, and then imaging using DS.
I was recently affected by the Energy Saver bug found in Workgroup Manager, where by this particular MCX manifest stops preferences applying on a users first login to a machine. For example, in my case a user would log in to a machine and only the Dock would apply – almost nothing else! If they then logged out and then back in again, everything would apply as expected! Here’s the low down…
I recently wrote an article on how to create a script to empty the Trash when an Active Directory user logged out of a client computer. This required us to mess around with the trust relationship a little between the client computer and the server. Now with the use of the ‘ManagedClient.app’ and ‘Folder Redirections’ we don’t have to worry about that anymore!
Within this guide we’ll take a look at setting up a Mac OS X 10.6 server from scratch, and then configuring Server Admin services Open Directory, AFP and NetBoot to use DeployStudio. In a further post we’ll take a look at image creation and deployment. But first, let’s get setup!
