I'm talking specifically about the MAC o/s, anti-virus for the MAC, etc.
Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com <http://www.fiserv.com/> From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Managing Mac's I daresay XP VMs in WSUS is easier than manually updating a large number of MACs On 25 May 2011 16:19, Guyer, Don <don.gu...@fiserv.com> wrote: We gave them XP VMs to use at my last gig. You still have to keep them patched, etc. Can't ignore that just because they're running a Windows virtual desktop. Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com <http://www.fiserv.com/> From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Managing Mac's Just put them on a separate VLAN, install this ( http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/subfeature.asp?contentID=2300 384 ) and make them use a Windows published desktop from a Citrix server running through the web interface. No more worrying about updating Macs :-) On 25 May 2011 16:10, S Powell <powe...@gmail.com> wrote: don't let regular users we don't let them run as admin and just do updates manually. most of the Macs that we use are used by our admins. Otherwise we're all MS. ----------------- Who'd you rather be, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:47, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote: I am using this news: http://blog.intego.com/2011/05/02/intego-security-memo-macdefender-fake- antivirus/ to leverage a "we really need to manage our Mac OS's like we do Windows" argument that I've had for some time. We have a couple dozen Mac OS's here and none of them are managed the same way we do Windows machines. Do any of you manage (or work with folks that manage) multiple Mac OS machines? Ideally something that can do GPO-ish and SMS-ish kinds of things. Specially patch and protect. 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