These are the slides from presentations at Macworld 2008 for the System Imaging and Deployment Power Tool Session.  They discuss deployment and system imaging techniques from Greg Neagle, Disney, and Philip Rinehart, Yale.

Slides from Greg 

 GN_PT08 

Slides from Philip

 pr26_mw08

In Mac OS X, you can view & modify settings for power management using the GUI, System Preferences -> Energy Saver. But this isn't always ideal especially in a enterprise environment, because some settings aren't available via the GUI and other times you might want to programmatically view or modify these settings, like using a script, or remotely using Apple Remote Desktop or SSH.

Luckily, there is a command line tool called pmset that allows you to modify and read the power management settings. These settings includes options like idle sleep timing, wake on administrative access, automatic restart on power loss, scheduling events, and much more.

SNMP, simple network management protocol, is a way to monitor your network-attached devices.  In a typical setup an agent will run on each system and report information to the managing system. Some examples of a managing system could be Intermapper, MRTG, RRDTool or Lithium.

 In this article we're going to go through how to configure snmp on OS X Server.

In many enterprises, Mac users need occasional access to Windows applications. One common way to provide this access is to implement a Microsoft Terminal Server to host the applications. Mac users then connect to the Terminal Server using Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client.

Remote Desktop Connection, a PowerPC-only application, generally works well, even on Intel Macs. It was a few shortcomings, most notably, the inability to host multiple simultaneous connections. But with some advanced configuration, this limitation can be eliminated and the user experience can be greatly improved.