Apple 3 - Deploying and Managing Software

Chapter 1 Using Apple Remote Desktop 15
Deploying Software
Apple Remote Desktop lets you distribute software and related files to client computers
from your Apple Remote Desktop administrator computer or from a computer running
Mac OS X Server.
Distributing Installer Packages
You can distribute and automatically install packages in .pkg and .mpkg formats. Apple
Remote Desktop lets you install software and software updates on one or more client
computers without user interaction or interruption, or even if no user is logged in. After
installation, Apple Remote Desktop erases the installer files. If the computers need to
be restarted, as they do following an operating system update, you can restart them
from Apple Remote Desktop.
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Deploy
configuration files
Deploy
drag-and-drop
application folders
Deploy
install packages
(.pkg or .mpkg)
Network
install images
NetBoot
images
Deploy UNIX
shell scripts
Set startup
partition
Administrator
computer
Mac OS X Server