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Re: Remote-desktop Digest, Vol 5, Issue 66

On May 24, 2008, at 2:21 PM, nancy mack wrote:
Finally the network manager came to my lab and looked at the Macs and decided that Apple's servers were not handling the traffic

If even a modest number of Macs attempts to hit Apple's software update servers on a regular basis your net admins will probably hit the roof. This is a good reason to do at least one of two things: use your ARD administration machine to download the appropriate updates, store them as .pkg files and use ARD's own installer function to deploy them to the group as appropriate. Mission accomplished on your terms, strictly within the LAN and considerably faster.

A second option: employ a MacOS X Server with Software Update Service enabled which will also download updates from Apple's server. Then, local machines are configured to look at that server for updates instead of Apple's. Again, you've established a considerable efficiency while not burdening your internet connection with dozens or hundreds of duplicated requests.

The former is a 'push' strategy; the latter 'pulls' the updates in the customary method (albeit with an efficient LAN-based twist). I use both methods combined with the softwareupdate command-line tool in ARD to deploy Apple and other updates.

Since ARD's package installer presumes you already know which updates may or may not be appropriate for the particular CPUs you manage, you do need to ascertain which updates need installing, often by running SU on a typical local CPU (but not actually installing the updates).

 best,
 Bob Gore
 expertise IT/90405
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