Justin Elliott, a Senior Research Programmer at Penn State University,
will be presenting on PSU Blast Image Config 2.0. Justin
wrote this tool to do the initial build and configuration of the 500+
Macs in the Penn State University student computing labs.
Justin will cover these topics on PSU Blast Image Config 2.0 (aka, "BIC"):
How to create a system disk image for restoration/cloning via BIC
How BIC makes it very easy and streamlined to restore a Mac
How BIC can be completely automated
How to create a bootable Mac OS X DVD that BIC can run and restore
from
Image creation and restoration tips and tricks
How Penn State uses BIC in their Lab deployments
For the case study, Daniel Ritter, Lab Supervisor for the School of
Visual Arts at Penn State University, will cover how he uses Blast Image
Config in his environment. He will discuss the various issues and solutions
to creating images and deploying them to many faculty Macs.
If you would like to view the WebCast while not connected to the Internet,
you may download this QuickTime
movie file for off-line viewing. If you have a slow connection to the
Internet, you may want to view the lower
resolution version of the WebCast.
