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Welcome to the OS X Deployment and Management Wiki. This wiki is meant to be an open resource for anyone who deploys Mac images, manages patches, settings and/or security on their end-user machines. This is a work in progress, so as time goes on, there should be more information available regarding the various tools that are out there (InstaDMG, Munki, DeployStudio, Composer, PackageMaker, etc).
This wiki is for any system admin to use in order to document processes that they think would be useful for others. The idea is to compile guides for various different deployment and management software in a central location so that one can easily get a basic setup going. This Wiki is NOT intended to replace many of the great mailing lists, forums and blogs that are out there but rather to augment them by keeping helpful bits of information in one easily searched location. This Wiki will allow any OS X Administrator to make an educated choice in which software they use and have a sufficient understanding of the software in order to be successful.
Another benefit to sharing documentation is that it can improve everyone's workflow versus what one can do by themselves. Many times, a more elegant solution can be reached when multiple people look over scripts, deployment workflows and various other management setups. Feel free to use the Discussion page if you see something that could be improved or made better. Discussion on the content here will make it better and better serve the OS X Admin community.
Anyone that would like to document a specific process or create a guide is welcome to do so. Just create an account and follow the guidelines in the OS X Deployment Wiki Guidelines page. If you see a guide that does something in a way that could be improved upon, feel free to comment on the discussion page outlining what changes you think would make it better.
IRC
If you are looking for more information not in this wiki or simply want to discuss amongst other OS X admins, join us @ irc.freenode.net in ##osx-server. If you do not use an IRC(Internet Relay Chat) program, you can access our channel from http://webchat.freenode.net then enter the required information to connect.
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