Today we will discuss about Upskill SCCM Admins in the Cloud Era. Let’s enhance your SCCM admin knowledge by delving into Mac device management. Together, we can explore the available options and find the best approach.
Upskilling SCCM admins is a big topic; I won’t cover that in this post. Many cloud-based features were introduced in the recent releases of SCCM 1906 (and, of course, previous versions). The following are some of them:
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| Upskill SCCM Admins |
| Full Mac Device Management |
| Learn SCCM Mac Device Management |
- Azure AD User Group Discovery
- Azure AD User Discovery
- Desktop Analytics
- Improved Co-management options
- Integration with Delivery Optimisation technologies
- SCCM Collection Sync with Azure AD Group
There are two “kinds” of management options for Mac devices from an SCCM perspective. I have explained SCCM Mac management options in the previous post.
Upskill SCCM Admins
Upskill SCCM admins knowledge yourself by learning more about Mac device management. I feel SCCM admins need to upskill themselves to keep them on the job. How many of you tested Cloud Management Gateway/Cloud DP, etc.?
Some of the other perspectives of “Upskill SCCM admins” are explained in one of my previous posts.
Full Mac Device Management
Let’s learn more options for Mac device management using SCCM and Parallel’s plugin. With this Parallel integration, you can make SCCM more powerful with full Mac device management options.
- SCCM software application deployment models
- Mac imaging
- Patch management
- FileVault encryption
Learn SCCM Mac Device Management
There are many learning resources available below to upskill SCCM admins. There are free on-demand webinars and video tutorials available in the following links. You can start learning SCCM Mac device management and upskill SCCM knowledge.
- Live Webinar – Mac computers managed by SCCM admins are the new normal
- Find out how 1000s of Windows IT departments have LEARNED to LOVE their MACs
- On-Demand Webinars for SCCM Mac Device Management
Resources
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Author
Anoop C Nair is Microsoft MVP! He is a Device Management Admin with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. He writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc.