I have been using DeployStudio for a year or so now and Netrestore before that. After visiting another campus, I found they used Casper Suite from Jamf Software. After looking into the cost, it is significant. Especially when compared to our current free alternative. I wanted to know, who out there uses Casper and if they think it’s worth the cost. I really like some of the features, it’s just that we can do most of it already. It’s not a easy and neat but it costs us nothing.
I’ve been wanting to purchase part of the Casper Suite, Composer, for a while now for its snapshot ability.
Being able to find out which prefs files change or are created during an install would be really really handy in determining what files to wrap up for remote deployments over ARD.
An old colleague used Composer regularly, almost every day. I know he is using DeployStudio now so must ask him whether Composer is still getting used.