• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mass Deployment

    DeployStudio: Creating a New Master Image

    Once you have been using DeployStudio for a time, you’ll invariably end up creating a new master image.  This is a hot topic this summer, given that Apple will be releasing Mac OS X 10.6 later this year and many people integrating DeployStudio want to make sure that they can manage the solution themselves during the subsequent updates.  Provided you have been leveraging all of the best in package based imaging this might be a relatively small file, or if you are using a monolithic image for distribution it might be a fairly large file.  Either way, DeployStudio makes it fairly straight forward to create a new master image.  To…

  • Mac OS X,  Windows XP

    Windows 7 in October

    If Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard will be shipping in September then the earlier the better. The arrival of Windows 7 will come on October 22nd. Likely less than a month after Snow Leopard, Windows 7 is what many companies have been waiting for to get migration projects lit up. While there are a number of new features, few are more important to companies than the fact that it is very capable of running on new or old hardware alike. Windows 7 adoption shouldn’t stop you from buying now though, if you’re in the market for a new machine. Microsoft announced that it will include a Windows Upgrade Option…