An Introduction to Builds Creating and Using Builds in Mac OS X

摘要

Five years ago my employer at the time purchased roughly 650 G4 Cubes. Each of those gleaming fanless little boxes needed to be customized for our environment. Bookmarks had to be created, homepages set, network preferences entered. Our standard application suites had to be installed and configured. This had to be done six hundred and fifty times. No problem. Clearly, since I am still in IT, we didn't have to do this manually. We had a build. Most people in IT are familiar with the concept of a build: a snapshot of a system configuration that is saved and applied to other machines. It's a fairly simple concept. Anyone who's worked in a larger environment has had to image machines at some point. For some reason though, we often forget about builds in smaller settings.