So why not give these cool new features a go by upgrading.DirectX 11 support is introduced in Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac and later by default. V7 now supports in-place upgrade of Mac Management from previous releases, easing the transition to the new release. The bootable media will connect to the Parallels Configuration Manager Proxy and retrieve the task sequences, the operating system images, and any other content from the network. Note that this is creating bootable media only and not standalone. A USB flash drive or external hard disk can be used to kick start the Mac build. This eliminates the need to stand up a Netboot server in your environment, or configure IP Helpers. Parallels has included this feature with Mac Management in v7. Offline macOS Imaging from External USB DriveĪnother native feature ConfigMgr admins are used to is the ability to create bootable USB media for OSD builds. The following task sequence steps can be used in a Non-OSD task sequence:
This feature adds the flexibility we have been used to with native task sequences in ConfigMgr when managing Windows devices. Previously, the “Deploy macOS Image” task sequence step was required to be added to a task sequence. Parallels Mac Management now allows you to create non-OSD task sequences. It’s a pre-requisite of this set up, that you must have at least one Internet enabled Management Point and Distribution Point in your ConfigMgr hierarchy.
Note, if you have multiple primary ConfigMgr sites then you will need a Parallels IBCM proxy per Parallels Configuration Manager Proxy. This acts as a proxy passing requests, via permanent SSL-secured link, between Parallels Mac Client and Parallels Configuration Manager Proxy. To achieve this, a Parallels IBCM proxy is required in your DMZ. Internet based management of Mac devices via the Parallels solution is now available. Here’s a couple of the big hitters in v7. I attended an online webinar hosted by the awesome Danny Knox, who ran through some of the new features in this release. Last week, Parallels released v7 (build PMA2012-7.0.0.116) of their Mac Management solution for SCCM.
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