Enterprise Mac Management

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• Parallels Mac Management vs. SCCM 2012 R2•Deploying Parallels Mac Management• Packages / Applications•OS X Patch Management•OS Deployment

Agenda

Parallels Mac Management vs. SCCM 2012 R2Parallels SCCM 2012

R2Discovery and EnrollmentNetwork discovery and automatic enrollment Manual enrollment InventoryHardware and software inventory Collect AppleCare warranty status ComplianceDeploy 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

Parallels Mac Management vs. SCCM 2012 R2Parallels SCCM 2012 R2

Software and Patch DeploymentDeploy software via SCCM Package Deployment Deploy software via SCCM Application Deployment Self-Service Application Portal for Macs Silent & interactive deployment modes OS X Image DeploymentDeploy OS X images via SCCM Support for SCCM Task Sequences and Task Sequence steps Remote AssistanceRemote Assistance via VNC and SSH ConfigurationWorks without PKI infrastructure

• Parallels Proxya service app that acts as a proxy between SCCM and Macs.

• Parallels Mac Clientenables communication between the Mac computer and the Proxy.

• Admin Console Extensionsextend the Config Manager console to provide a graphical UI enabling you to manage Macs.

• NetBoot Server optional component needed for OS X imaging• OS X Software Update Point a service app that publishes Apple Software Updates to Config Manager

Deploying Parallels Mac Management

Parallels Mac Client Auto-upgradeWhen a new version of PMM is installed, PMM automatically creates a SCCM package with the latest version of Parallels Mac client.• Reduces workload and increases productivity of SCCM admins by

automating upgrade package creation.• Eliminates a chance of unsuccessful PMM client deployment due to

incorrectly created SCCM package.

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Automatic Upgrade of Parallels Mac Client

Starting with v4.5 it has become extremely easy to upgrade Parallels Mac Client on managed Macs to a newer version. All the needs to be done is to enable the upgrade option under SCCM site settings.

Parallels Application Portal

How to repackages .dmg to .cmmac

Download SCCM client for Mac OS X“macclient.dmg”

Extract: CMAppUtil

Run : ./CMAppUtil-c ./filepath/file.dmg –o ./filepath

OS X Patch & Update ManagementExtends SCCM with OS X patch and update management functionality.• By far the most requested feature at Ignite’15.• Automates the process of downloading patches and updates from

Apple Update server and creating SCCM update packages.• An easy to market feature.

Patch Notification

Receive Patch

Import

Create SCCM Package

Publish

Report

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OS X Patch Management

Parallels Mac Management v4.5 adds “Apple” category to the properties of Software Update Point Component (located under Administration \ Overview \ Site Configuration \ Sites

OS X Patch Management

Apple updates appear under All Software Updates folder

OS X Patch Management

Just like with PC updates, you need to create a Software Update Group and then deploy it to a collection with Macs.

Capture OS X Image Task Sequence StepContinuous improvements to the OSD functionality. The v4.5 introduces support for the following task sequence steps:• Capture OS X image: significantly simplifies process of preparing OS

X “golden” image. Removes requirement to create second HDD partition on a Mac used to create “golden” image.

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Capture OS X Image

Capture OS X Image task sequence step significantly simplifies and shortens the process of creating OS X images.

As the first step, you need to create task sequence with Create OS X Image step and publish the task sequence.

Capture OS X Image

And then execute the task sequence on a Mac.

Upon completion the Mac’s image will be copied to a Windows file share.

MacBookAir EFI boot

Parallels TS Wizard – Log in

Parallels TS Wizard – Select TS

Parallels TS Wizard - Hostname

Parallels TS Wizard – Select a Destination

Parallels TS Wizard – Executing TS

Parallels

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