<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">What we have been doing is just pulling them off the cart, running Casper Remote on them and telling them to "Install all available updates". Its a pain, but it seems to be the best way to do it.<div><br></div><div>For the progress bar, we have a Unix command to run Software Update as sudo which allows non-admins to install them. This is set as a Self Service policy (the last tab allows running commands). The command is:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Software\ Update.app/Contents/MacOS/Software\ Update</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">It gives them a nice UI to run them. We've had good feedback about it, and it saves us from forcing them.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">-Matt</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><div>On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Clinton Blackmore wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Greetings.<br><br>How do you handle software updates on laptop labs? We have carts of <br>laptops in our schools, and, if they are not being used by a student, <br>they are charging in the cart. That doesn't provide for a nice way to <br>update them after hours without pulling each machine out of the cart, <br>and yet, I don't really want to pop up a message to a student saying, <br>"Your computer is going to reboot now. Deal with it!"<br><br>Also, when you use the GUI tools to do software update, the machine <br>logs out and you get a nice progress indicator showing that updates <br>are installing. Is there any way to do that from the command line? <br>(Yes, I know one can install updates, and Casper handles it nicely, <br>but can I get the progress bar? We had some machines set to update, <br>and then found they had kernel panicked. We wondered if a user <br>noticed the machine became sluggish and forced it off.) More <br>generally, how do you convey to users that updates are in progress?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Clinton Blackmore<br><br>This email has been scanned by Barracuda Network's Anti-Virus and Spam Firewall.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Casper mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Casper@list.jamfsoftware.com">Casper@list.jamfsoftware.com</a><br>http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div><br></div><div>Matthew Butch</div><div>Technology Support Analyst</div><div>Penn Manor School District</div><div>717-872-9500 x 2385</div><div><a href="http://www.pennmanor.net">http://www.pennmanor.net</a></div><div><br></div><div>Apple Certified Macintosh Technician</div><div>Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist 10.4</div><div>Apple Certified Support Professional 10.5</div><div>Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.4 & 10.5</div><div>Apple Certified Systems Administrator 10.4</div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>