New iMac for Video editing

[Carrot63]

Hi

Our Performing Arts Centre have received a new high specced iMac predominantly for video editing. We have a small network of imacs but are predominantly Windows based. The existing macs are still able to be deployed/updated using Deploystudio but I believe this would not work with the new one.

 

 

As this is only one Mac what would the best practice be for setting this up? Should I manually bind to the network etc, install Office, Sophos etc.. or is there a better more automated and secure way (withoiut too much of a learning curve)? Would it still link in with profile manager for drive and printer mappings?

 

What would you recomend?

 

Thanks

[Brimstone]

Do not under ANY circumstances try and use Profile Manager with this new iMac, to manage this you would need an MDM soliution such as Jamf Pro.

 

It will have a T2 chip so can not be netbooted to push an image from the network to it, probably best to set it up as standalone Mac.

[Carrot63]

Hi

 

Thanks for that advice.

 

I have installed this one manually with the required software and have bound it to AD and added printers.

 

Ideally I would also like to be able to do the two following things :-

 

Specify a fixed dock for anyone else who logs onto the mac and also provide mapped drive links to the user home directory and the staff and student shared areas, for any user of this mac.

 

Can anyone offer any advice as to how to go about this please?

 

I have tried with the dock copying the com.apple.dock.plist to the appropriate plaece under english.lproj but that doesn't make any difference.

 

Thanks