[MacTUG] A few deploystudio settings I am wondering about...

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

Everything in my Deploystudio setup works totally fine but I decided to sit down and watch the Lynda section on Deploystudio on"Imaging and Deploying Macintosh Computers” to see if I could pick up any tips. (I didn’t learn anything earth shattering*, but it is not a bad intro).

But I am wondering about this setting: For the restore a partition workflow he enables the feature called “Cleanup existing network configurations" (which is now called “Delete Network Configuration Files”). I do not bother doing this and have no problems. From what I read online this feature may be more valuable if one is deploying the image to a device with radically different network options (such as a device with no wired ethernet port). Has any one used this, and if so, why?

He also disables the “Don’t check restoration” in the same workflow. I should probably see how much time this adds to my process. Normally I am of the “I will know if it does not work” camp, but I am deploying mainly to lab computers where a) I want them out there as fast as possible, and b) if I do need to blow a computer away and rebuild it it is not the end of the world as it could with a clients machine. If I was using it for clients I would consider doing so. Does anyone disable “Don’t check for restoration”?

Notes:
*There are times that I could just use the “File Copy” workflow when I make my life slightly more complex and build a package in Composer. For example I have a package that tosses some scripts into LaunchAgents, and I could just use File copy to place them. Although I sort of like having everything in pkg form. So I learned this but I don’t know if I am going to use it ;-)


Donald Duff-McCracken
Technical Services Manager
Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 x32151
https://uwaterloo.ca/environment-computing/about/people
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