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Device management becomes much more complicated when you have multiple OSes, though. Unless your company is small enough that self-management remains viable, yo
by ericbarrett 4y ago
Device management becomes much more complicated when you have multiple OSes, though. Unless your company is small enough that self-management remains viable, you have to hire for both Windows and Mac administration experience, and/or shell out a pretty penny for cross-platform "enterprise" device management software.
- Xylakant 4y agoThey do allow linux though, and I have yet to find a competent device management software that supports Mac, Windows and Linux at the same time (or even Mac and Linux). I‘d be happy to hear recommendations.
- dijit 4y agoWhat are you looking for? Managing Linux at scale is extremely easy as you can leverage basically all the tooling that sysadmins use(d) for management of infrastructure fleets. You can even get a pretty GUI if it’s saltstack enterprise.
- nikau 4y agoSomething like saltstack is not in the same league as point and drool windows solutions.
- dijit 4y agoIs there something you can’t do? Or are you assuming sysadmins don’t learn their tools. Arguably learning the idiosyncracies of proprietary management tools is harder long-term as there are myriads of edge cases and they get replaced with completely new tools quite often. Exceptions are SCCM maybe, but people are avoiding that as much as possible IME.
- nikau 4y agoMost Windows compliance tools are seen as a tick in a box so ease of use and low effort deployment is often the most important thing. I'm sure you could achieve similar results with Salt but it will be some bespoke contraption requiring a lot of engineering effort where you cant just hire new staff off the street to maintain it.
- dijit 4y agoTell me what you need and I’ll tell you how hard it is. I’m sure certain things are a tick of a box, with salt it’s usually 3-5 lines of yaml. It’s not like you’re writing a management system by hand in a general purpose programming language.
- nikau 4y agowhere I work there are controls to block USB media devices, they block certain software publishers (eg. cant run firefox), all sorts of annoying things.