MAC OS Monterey DMG combo updates

DMG files appears to have been discontinued at around Catalina macOS 10.15

What I find useful for my purposes to update several computer from One Single Download

This will be downloading the Full Version of the latest Monterey 12.5 ( Full Versions about 12.1 GB )

Using below Terminal command on One Qualifying Computer

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 12.5

This pulls the Full Version and places a new Application in Applications folder called " Install Monterey " and Does Not Auto Launch

Get a reliable 16 GB Capacity or larger Drive and Copy the Install Monterey to that drive.

Move the USB Drive to each Other computer and Copy the Installer to the Applications folder of that computer.

Repeat the process to each addition computer

Ready to install at a time the user is ready to commence the installation

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nao1120 wrote:

Reading about this, there appears to be less of this as an option. I recall in the past there were apple support pages with the .DMG package available and you could easily download it and quickly push to multiple machines with the update.

We don't have MDM management at the office here and its all done manually.

The ask here is: Other than using each machine manually to download and install the MAC OS update from the app store, how can i get the incremental package upon release and then install quicker from a file?

What exactly is the issue...(?)

You can download the full installer yes.... the point updates do not work that way—it has to be a full installer of the latest OS. Before there was a macOS 12.5 you could down load the 12.4 as a full installer for example

You can make a bootable USB installer —yes

How to create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support

What is it you are looking for?

From the Terminal you can see the current list available point updates (as full installers) of past macOS Monterey and few others:

softwareupdate --list-full-installers

The point updates are fastest simply using the >About this Mac>Software Update

nao1120 wrote:

Yeah, thats kind of what I was looking for. So, Even though this is the full 12.5 installer, if it detects 12.4, it'll just do the update/upgrade?

I use a similar command to get the package and make USB sticks for erase and installs or upgrades say from Big Sur to Monterey, never thought of this for incremental OS updates from 12.x - 12.5

As Barney-15E astutely points out content caching is an option for your situation

To open Content Caching preferences, choose > System Preferences, click Sharing, then select Content Caching.

Independent of that, read up on: Manage Content Caching, and go from there:

Content caching preferences on Mac - Apple Support

macOS User Guide - Apple Support

Set up content caching on Mac

Set up content caching on Mac - Apple Support

Change content caching preferences on Mac

Change content caching preferences on Mac - Apple Support

Use iCloud File Sharing to share documents with other iCloud users

Use iCloud File Sharing to share folders and documents with others - Apple Support

View cache activity in Activity Monitor on Mac

View cache activity in Activity Monitor on Mac - Apple Support

Set up content cache clients, peers or parents on Mac

Set up content cache clients, peers, or parents on Mac - Apple Support

nao1120 wrote:

Yeah, thats kind of what I was looking for. So, Even though this is the full 12.5 installer, if it detects 12.4, it'll just do the update/upgrade?

I use a similar command to get the package and make USB sticks for erase and installs or upgrades say from Big Sur to Monterey, never thought of this for incremental OS updates from 12.x - 12.5

Yes

Being a Full Version it contains everything including any added features, if any

I know the trend is to push you into the Apple Store,

The Apple Store has nothing to do with updates or upgrades.

The Mac App Store doesn’t do OS updates.

but just want to get out of using that, little bit of a hassle on these bigger packages.

I'm not sure how you are getting away from that by downloading a full OS installer instead of the update.

You can download just the updates via softwareupdate.

With Content caching, one or more Macs on the network downloads the update and the rest of the devices on the Network get the update from that source instead of the Internet.

A lot simpler than downloading the update and manually distributing it.

Those haven’t been available for years. You can try content caching on one of your devices.

Content types supported by content caching in macOS - Apple Support

You are welcome 🇨🇦 and thank you too.

Do come back to the Apple Support Communities ( ASC )  in the future, if / or when additional questions may arise

To be fair and on balance the " Content Caching " method might be a more reasonable option to achieve the Incremental Update .