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25.05 MacEnterprise: Pain Management
by Greg Neagle
May, 2009 Issue
Article Synopsis
There are two major challenges posed by Apple firmware updates. The first is finding out about them. Since firmware updates are generally for specific hardware models, unless you have one of everything Apple's ever shipped in your office, you won't find out about every firmware update simply by looking at Software Update on your machine. You'll need a way to find out about firmware updates that apply to all the various hardware in your organization.The second challenge, as implied above, is deploying those updates. You cannot deploy these like you do OS updates or security updates. You'll need another method.
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