In Apple Remote Desktop, there's a great "copy" command that allows you to copy files to many computers at once.
When you deal with many computers that all have a shared user name and password, it allows you to do things like distribute plist files, fonts, and other nice things.
- In order to install a font on many computers at once, select all of the Macs you are pushing the font to.
- Then click on the copy icon in the top toolbar, by the install and Unix icons.
- Select the items to copy by pressing the "+" icon, and navigate to the font folder or file.
- Place the items in "/Library/Fonts".
- If an item already exisits, replace the item - these are fonts and if they are named the same, should be the same.
- You'll want to set the ownership to inherit from the destination folder as we're copying to a universally accessible location on the Macintosh computers.
- Don't select "stop the copy on all targets" as we'll be able to tell from the task if something has failed.
- Don't select "open items" after copying as this would be intrusive and somewhat annoying.
- You can feel free to encrypt the network data, but my tinfoil hat keeps me safe.
- If you are working with a production environment you may want to limit the network usage to something like 300 kilobytes per second. Fonts are quite small and this task should not take very long.
- Once we are done this set up task you can save and schedule it for later and/or simply press the highlighted copy button to start sending the fonts to all of the Macs you selected.
- Finally, watch the log and adjust as you see fit.
Note: You may run into permission problems if you haven't added the computers properly. You may also be surprised that in the time it took you to set up the task some of them may have fallen asleep from sheer boredom.