Yet another post about the Parallels Mac Management plugin for Configuration Manager. Anyone would think they pay to write this crap! Well, unfortunately for me, they don’t. I have to admit, this post has been an embarrassingly long time in the making; in between work, parenting and being absolutely cream crackered all the time, I …
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Building, Deploying and Automatically Configuring a Mac Image Using SCCM and Parallels SCCM Agent
I touched briefly on using the Parallels Management Agent to build Macs in my overview article but I thought it might be a good idea to go through the entire process that I use when I have to create an image for a Mac, getting the image deployed and getting the Mac configured once the image is on there. At …
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Managing Macs using System Center Configuration Manager – Part 2
In my previous article, I described the agent that Microsoft have put into System Center Configuration Manager to manage Macs with. Overall, while I was happy to have some kind of management facility for our Macs I found it to be somewhat inadequate for our needs and I wished it was better. I also mentioned that …
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Managing Macs using System Center Configuration Manager – Part One
This post is about one of my favourite subjects, namely Configuration Manager, referred to hereafter as ConfigMgr . If you don’t care about the intricacies of desktop management, I suggest you look away now cos this ain’t gonna interest you! Before I get too far into this post, I should mention that I’ve written about …
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