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Preface
About This Guide
Learn what’s new in this version of NetBoot and Network
Install services and Software Update Server.
Mac OS X Server version 10.4 includes NetBoot service supporting both NetBoot and
Network Install images and the improved System Image Utility (formerly Network
Image Utility)—a stand-alone utility used to create Install and Boot images used with
NetBoot service.
A new service added in Mac OS X Server version 10.4 is Apple’s Software Update Server.
Designed as a source for Apple Software Updates managed on your network. With SUS,
you are able to directly manage which Apple Software Updates client users on your
network can access and apply to their computers.
What’s New in NetBoot Service and Software Update Server
Version 10.4
 Virtually unlimited number of AFP connections.
 Create faster-installing, block copy, network install disk images. This feature allows
you to install software up to five times faster compared to package install images.
Block copy images can also be used to burn discs that you can use to install software
on client and server computers.
 Create images you can store on a remote server. Previously a command-line interface
option, administrators can now specify an NFS or HTTP indirect path to store
NetBoot and Network Install images that NetBoot service can provide clients as if
they were stored locally.
 Copy a Directory Service configuration to all clients using the same system image.
System Image Utility now provides an option to apply Directory Service settings from
one computer to all clients using the NetBoot image you create.
 Use Software Update Server to manage which Software Update packages your client
users may access from software lists that you control.
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