4. Agenda
• The Mac OS X management challenge
• History of Mac OS X management in ConfigMgr
• Management options with Parallels Mac Management
• Deploy Mac OS X images with ConfigMgr
6. A couple of questions
Question one:
Who has Mac OS X devices in their
environment?
Question two:
Who is managing those devices?
Question three:
Who many of you want to manage those
devices?
7. A couple of questions
Question four:
Who tried configuring native ConfigMgr
support?
Question five:
Did it work?
9. The History
Quest QMX extensions for Config Mgr 2007
• Good product overall, but was not updated for Config Mgr 2012
Microsoft introduces Mac management with Config Mgr 2012 SP1
• Very basic and limited functionality that requires PKI certificate
infrastructure
Parallels introduces in January 2013 a new plug-in for Config Mgr
• Many additional features added for Mac Management via Config Mgr
• Does not require PKI certificate infrastructure
10. Mac OS X Management
With Parallels Mac Management
11. Unify PC and Mac Management
• Discovery
• Inventory
• Compliance
• Software deployment
• Self-service App Portal
• OS image deployment
• Reporting
12. Parallels Mac Management vs. SCCM 2012 R2 SP1
Parallels SCCM 2012 R2 SP1
Discovery and Enrollment
Network discovery and automatic enrollment
Manual enrollment
Inventory
Hardware and software inventory
Collect AppleCare warranty status
Compliance
Deploy Mac OS X Configuration Profiles
Easy to use OS X Configuration Profile editor
Push scripts as SCCM Configuration Items
Enable FileVault 2 encryption
Escrow and retrieve FileVault 2 personal keys
13. Parallels Mac Management vs. SCCM 2012 R2
Parallels SCCM 2012 R2 SP1
Software and Patch Deployment
Deploy software via SCCM Package Deployment
Deploy software via SCCM Application Deployment
Self-Service Application Portal for Macs
Silent & interactive deployment modes
Mac OS X Image Deployment
Deploy Mac OS X images via SCCM
Remote Assistance
Remote Assistance via VNC
Remote Assistance via SSH
Configuration
Works without PKI infrastructure
14. Deploying Parallels Mac Management
• Parallels Proxy
a service app that acts as a proxy between SCCM and Macs.
• Parallels Mac Client
enables communication between the Mac computer and the
Proxy.
• Admin Console Extensions
extend the Config Manager console to provide a graphical UI
enabling you to manage Macs.
• Parallels NetBoot Server
optional component needed for OS X
disk imaging
17. Mac OS X 9
WDS
TFTP
Server
IIS HTTP
Server
Distribution
Point
ConfigMgrOS X
Images
Parallels NetBoot
Service
Mac OS X 10
18. Mac OS X
Admin creates OS X
Image in SCCM
Import the Image in
SCCM
Distribute image to
Distribution Points
Parallels NetBoot
image puts this
image to a location
available for IIS and
WDS
Mac searches for
available NetBoot
images
Sending broadcast
BSDP request:
"where can I boot
from?"
WDS delegates
processing of this
request to Parallels
NetBoot service
Parallels NetBoot
service sends the
BSDP response with
the list of available
NetBoot images
Mac booted to a
selected (if many)
NetBoot image
Booter and kernel
cache are
downloaded using
WDS's TFTP server
NetInstall.dmg is
downloaded using
IIS HTTP server
20. Resources
Parallels Corporate and Academic Licensing Team
Contact us with questions!
(425) 282-6448
usentsales@parallels.com
Visit us online:
parallels.com/business
Parallels Blog
http://blog.parallels.com
@ParallelsBiz
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