On 04/06/2012 11:26 AM, Tim Kirby wrote: > Much to my surprise and contrary to many years of prior stance > to the contrary, a "fast track" project has appeared at $WORK > with a view to "supporting" Mac laptops as an alternative to > the Dell windows systems - certain area, in particular in > engineering, have seen a proliferation of people bringing in > their own systems and I guess there's a sense that the powers > that be would rather provide and support $WORK owned machines > than have a network full of home boxes. Things such as cost > and the like are understood and will be factored in so when > managers sign up for employees to have such machines they will > know the impact on their budget... > > The more interesting aspect is what constitutes "support"; > the windows guys perspective they wax lyrical about group > policies, imaging systems etc. etc. ... which leads me to > ask whether any of this body have any useful experience in > "managing" such machines. I'm open to pointers to useful > resources, but I'm particularly interested in anyone who is > actually "doing" this at some level.
With the number of personal mobile devices on the corporate network now, you really have to treat every device, workstation and laptop as hostile. That said, I have heard good things about Big Fix, which supposedly is able to manage Windows, Mac and Linux clients (IBM purchased them: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/solutions/endpoint/) Cheers, Brian _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
