My name is Brian, and I will be teaching the enterprise management sections of this course, this will
include topics on setting up Max out of the box, computer naming, active directory application installation,
managing preferences, launch Damons firewall and upgrading Mac OS from one version to another.
And all of these topics will be discussing how to do this not only on a small number of machines in
a single location, but a large number of machines in multiple locations.
In fact, I was responsible for the management of nearly ten thousand Macs in 52 locations now throughout
these sections.
The one thing I won't talk about is NDMS, and I'm doing that for a few reasons.
Not everyone has it MDM.
There are more than a dozen mediums out there and I didn't want to teach a course on a specific MDM.
Rather, I wanted to teach a course on Mac management concepts.
When you understand the concepts, you can use any tool to implement them.
Also, modems tend to be expensive and we want the course to be relevant to users on any budget.
The entire course will be utilizing free software with the exception of Apple remote desktop and profile
manager.
Since they are Apple products and priced reasonably, we felt they're worth using in the class.
However, the course is taught in a way where you can see that they are not required in other management
tools could be used in their place.
Now if you have an MDM and I cover a topic that is easier done with your MBM, then by all means keep
using your MDM for that.
We're not trying to convince anyone not to use an MDM.
We just want to teach it concepts class and you can decide what the best tool is for the job, for any
given topic in your organization.