RM CC4 & Apple Mac

[talksr]

When you sysprep a windows installation it automatically runs a mini setup once the image is put onto a new machine - resets the SID and so on. Mac server has workstation manager, so you would need that to manage the macs.

Thanks for your post. I am presuming, I can just download and add this Mac App Store - OS X Lion Server to my OS X Lion macmini.

[clareq]

I'm still on snow leopard. I assume that if all your workstations are on Lion, then Lion server will be fine.

[talksr]

Hi, yes they are on Lion, I upgraded them all (had a bit of money spare in the budget, and it wasn't very much per system.

[ste1988]

dont forget admin tools as its not included and youll need it for workgroup manager Server Admin Tools 10.7

[talksr]

dont forget admin tools as its not included and youll need it for workgroup manager Server Admin Tools 10.7

Ah thanks, that is very useful! Didn't know about that

[talksr]

I was just thinking, would it also be possible to add a mac computer running Windows 7 (using bootcamp) to CC4 using the smartclient?
I am guessing the rm build disk would not work with bootcamp?

[SC92]

I was just thinking, would it also be possible to add a mac computer running Windows 7 (using bootcamp) to CC4 using the smartclient?
I am guessing the rm build disk would not work with bootcamp?

Yeah it's possible!

What i've done is install a fresh Windows 7 build onto a bootcamp partition, update it to the latest bootcamp software/drivers, and imaged it with deploystudio. That way, in the future you can then just create the bootcamp partition and then it's smartclient ready!

Hope that helps.

[clareq]

Exactly what I've done too - in fact my Win7 image for the Macs is fully patched, up to the point I created the image, with the smartclient files in a folder on the C drive and a shortcut to smartclient.exe on the desktop. They are easier to smartclient than the odd windows machine we need to smart client, due to deploystudio

[ste1988]

like SC92 and clareq, that is the way its done here too, and with great effect, its now pretty effortless to build these machines