Re: [Fed-Talk] Patching iLife in enterprise
Re: [Fed-Talk] Patching iLife in enterprise
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Patching iLife in enterprise
- From: "Gibson Jr, Marvin L (M3G)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:55:40 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Patching iLife in enterprise
IMO, that is just wrong to have Apple systems managed by a Microsoft
application. Maybe a solution for some, but does the SCCM group now handle
the management and patching of systems they despise and may not be
familiar with OS X? What happens to the Apple admins and support people
who are not familiar with SCCM?
Eh, I'll stick with Casper for patching, OS, software, inventory, logging,
reports, etc....
Lee Gibson
(865) 574-4197
Y12 National Security Complex
Apple Systems Administrator
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On 10/31/11 2:26 PM, "Peter Thoenen" <email@hidden> wrote:
>It's also called configuration management and testing; there are also
>magic things like patch windows, validation, etc etc. Since this is a
>Fed list we are ALL aware of the A&A world we have to live in (DIACAP
>or NIST SP 800-53) and letting clients just go out and patch
>themselves isn't a reality in that world.
>
>I've given up though an any apple backend tool. Just go buy Quest
>management extensions for SCCM, integrate OSX into your SCCM
>infrastructure, and be done with it.
>
>On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 08:07, Marcus, Allan B <email@hidden> wrote:
>> We need to test the updates before we allow them to be installed. Also,
>>we
>> often have to hold back an update if it's not compatible with WinMagic.
>>
>> Bandwidth is not an issue, but for our users, downloading the updates
>>from
>> a local server is WAY faster than from Apple.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Allan Marcus
>> 505-667-5666
>> email@hidden
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/30/11 2:56 PM, "Joel Esler" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>>What's the advantage? Why not let the clients directly update from
>>>Apple? Lack of bandwidth?
>>>
>>>--
>>>Joel Esler
>>>
>>>On Oct 27, 2011, at 10:36 AM, "Marcus, Allan B" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Apple Software Update Service was the last OS X service I was
>>>>using, and it's so darned unreliable that we are testing and will
>>>>probably switch to reposado and linux for our Apple Update Server.
>>
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