| Mac OS X Server Software Updates Service |
| Tuesday, 10 November 2009 20:39 | |||
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Fairly easy to set this up, basically just turned the service on using Server Admin and set the options to auto copy All New updates and remove expired. Main config issue was to configure the clients. Firstly, I created a Computer Group in Workgroup Manager called 'Desktop', click on the icon on the right with the dots on it which seems to browse the network and allowed me to add my clients to the newly created group as below.
Also created a 'Mobile' group for MacBooks as you can see. I then created the 'Client Computers' group and added the 'Desktop' group and 'Mobile' group to the Client Computers group, this will allow me to set preferences to my desktops and macbooks while excluding the server it's self.
Finally, clicked on the 'Client Computers' group and picked Preferences from the toolbar and set the Software Update as follows.
I know that update 10.6.2 came out on the 9th Nov that my clients don't have yet, so will wait a couple of days and see what happens, hopefully it will just 'work' and I won't have the hair pulling out sessions I've had in the past with Microsoft WSUS and Configuration Manager !
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