Happy Tuesday,

With afternoon temperatures in the fifties, mud season in full effect, and daylight at 7PM, spring is almost here. Then again, we had a St. Patrick’s Day snowstorm a few years ago that left us with over two feet heading in to April. I’ll take one mud season over two, thank you very much.

Years ago, I oversaw hundreds of Macs at a local college across two campuses. It was a bit harder then than it is now. Under Mac OS X 10.3 “Panther” Server, there were simply NetBoot and NetRestore services used to push system images across the network to laboratory and mobile workstations.

I had to manually change the Xserve’s subnet to broadcast to machines, as NetBooting across subnets was not easily or reliably done. Things have come a long way, and Rebecca wrote a detailed article on Deploy Studio, the modern-day replacement for managing deployments.

I hope you enjoy this issue. As always, keep in touch.

Matt
matt@smalldog.com