1. Deploy Mac OS X with SCCM!
Wait! What?????
Peter Daalmans
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Danny Knox
@dannyknox
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@pdaalmans
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Breda, Netherlands
Peter Daalmans

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@dannyknox
Sales Engineer,
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23 years in IT,
started at
MSFT in 1992
Danny Knox

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

5. Mac OS X Management
The challenge

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?

8. Mac OS X Management
The history

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

15. Demo
Mac management with Parallels

16. Deploy Mac OS X with SCCM!
Wait! What????

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

19. Demo
Deploying Mac OS X

20. Resources
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