Mountain Lion Server: Software Update

07/12/12 16:49 Filed in: Technology

Software Update is Apple’s method of pushing updates to their software to Macs. The problem with Software Update is the time it takes to download each of those updates individually for each machine and the bandwidth it takes for each of those individual downloads.

In Mountain Lion Server Apple has included a local Software Update Service that allows you to download all of Apples’ updates to your server and then point your clients to your server to download those updates. In this screencast tutorial I cover how to set up the Software Update Service and how to point your client computers to use your Server instead of Apple’s Servers to get their updates.

If you have any questions along the way, feel free to leave a comment below or on my YouTube Channel.