For organizations that are already managing their Windows systems using Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager (2012, 2012R2) that have Apple Macs in their environment, the company Parallels (maker of the virtual machine technology for Macs) released a plug-in for the Mac that provides extensive management of Macs from SCCM. (and no, you do NOT need to be running the Parallels VM software on the Mac to use this plug-in, two completely separate parts of the company).In a nutshell, with this Parallels for SCCM add-in, you can:More specifically, what the Parallels Mac Management suite includes:Parallels Suite adds right into the normal SCCM Management Console:Uses nMAP for Network Discovery, same issue as doing a discovery of PCs on a network, will need a helper service to hop across subnets for discovery, but will identify Macs on the network (just like SCCM discovers PCs on a network). Alternate option is to just have users launch/install the agent, just a normal DMG package. (note: for Macs that are already joined to Active Directory, a Summer/2014 release will discover Mac objects through the Active Directory Discovery mechanism of SCCM).System Center’s Resource Explorer takes device inventory and provides a view of the the hardware and OS configuration of the device.

Now that you've got the Parallels Mac Management for SCCM tool install and discovered your Mac clients on the network by following my post: HERE. You're ready to start deploying applications. What you'll need for this is to re-package your applications into the.cmmac format.

Powerpoint for mac 2016 helvetica neue. Apple Footer • This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. At least Times New Roman works now. Some of these unnecessary fonts cannot be removed. 😟 What is MS thinking? Took way too much time removing useless fonts.