[MacTUG] Managed software for Macs.

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

That is cool Guillermo. I would like to see it sometime. Quickly reading it I am not sure what it can do that ARD cannot do, although it sounds like it pulls the updates versus having ARD push them out, is that right?

don


From: Guillermo Fuentes <gfuentes at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:gfuentes at uwaterloo.ca>>
Date: Wednesday, 2 May, 2012 11:21 AM
To: MacTUG <mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca>>
Subject: [MacTUG] Managed software for Macs.

Hi all,

One of the things I wanted to find out about at the Apple Connect training camp was what people were using for managing software on Mac OS X. It turned out there is an open source project called Munki (http://code.google.com/p/munki/) that's used by several companies, including Walt Disney Animation Studios (where the lead developer works as Senior Systems Engineer), Google, and several universities around the world.
After testing Munki with a few packages on a few Macs I can now confirm is working great for us. I'm managing the following packages on our lab machines and I'm working on moving all packages I can to Munki:

  *   Firefox
  *   Google Chrome
  *   MS Office 2011

I've tested it on Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.8 and 10.7.3.

Were you looking at a similar solution?

Guillermo






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