[Adminaholic]

I know what you mean. Our company uses Casper Suite and they call their product, "Couchware for the Mac Admin." Here's to our ever-widening derrieres! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[MacTel]

That's cool. I sounds like we have the same set up except my network is all Windows and I use Remote Desktop. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[daddydoodaa]

I'm lucky. My boss believes "a good admin is a lazy admin" - meaning an admin is going to try to do everything more efficiently, because that's less work.
We've been able to greatly improve our response time, lower costs, and also make our life easier by using ARD and OS X Server.
The licensing costs ($aving$) was a big selling point with higher ups.

[daddydoodaa]

That's way better than a Windows network and NOT using Remote Desktop /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Adminaholic]

ARD is great for patch management and things like that. If you ever get into maintaining images and pushing out full operating systems, setting up new workstations from scratch... things like that, you may want to give Casper a look. It takes hours not months to deploy a new OS with a consistent image. And you can start thinking about putting a permanent indent in that couch! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[daddydoodaa]

Thanks, I'll check it out - since I have the time!