I hope some of that helps, and I hope others chime in with their thoughts. I suspect you'll be waiting a bit on that, and of course your CEO/CTO/bigwig will want to get upgraded to it right away or else purchase a new Mac that only runs on that OS. Good luck getting an SCCM update to support 10.9 when that comes out. JAMF is also always within a few days of supporting any new OS releases, if not sometimes the day of release. My response to that is always along the lines of, 'yeah, just like LANDesk or Altiris can effectively manage Macs, right? Oh, right.'īottom line is, do you want to trust your Mac management to a company that has historically short shrifted the Mac platform and usually comes up with some non standard way of implementing a feature, or a company that has a long history of fully understanding and supporting Macs in the enterprise and uses standard built-in technology to manage Mac clients. Just because Microsoft says they can do A, B or C, doesn't mean they do it right. I trust there are many places where SCCM can't stand up to Casper, but so much of it is semantics and bullet points on a spec sheet. As we are moving in the direction of FV2 for all 10.8 managed Macs, this was one thing SCCM couldn't do in relation to Casper. One of the things I discussed with them was the use of Casper's FileVault 2 escrow key management.
I don't know the full details of what Microsoft claims SCCM can do, but we have an SCCM installation here for Windows and, despite having a fully entrenched Casper management framework in place, our SCCM team began to drop hints that maybe we want to phase out Casper in favor of going with SCCM 2012?
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