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Explore the world of Mac. Check out MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac mini, and more. Visit the Apple site to learn, buy, and get support. Mac OS X — An Overview. The home of your Mac is the desktop. Think of it as a physical desktop – a place where you may temporarily spread out your work while performing a task. For example, you may put an image from the internet on the desktop, make some modifications, and then drag it into an email.
If you are unfortunate enough to be in a position where you are required to use SCCM 2012 R2 to manage your fleet of Mac OS X devices. Then you may already be aware that the process to enroll these devices on mass is not easily automated. Unlike other management products like Casper suite, where we have a QuickAdd.pkg which we can install on the client at firstboot or through ARD or any other number of methods that require no user intervention, SCCM is a little bit different. The installer package that is provided installs the client, but it doesn't install any of the tools required to automate the enrollment via a script for example. Previously with SCCM 2012 SP1 it had been possible to automate the enrollment process by passing the username and password on the command line to the cmenroll binary (albeit in clear text)
Now it seems that MS would rather rely on the user to enter in their AD credentials in the new ConfigMgr GUI window in order to enroll. This is obviously a problem if you have a lab of Mac's or wish to enroll a number of machines at imaging time using DeployStudio/Casper etc etc. So in this post I will show you how I was able to create a metapackage that contains all the required files and a postflight script which can automatically enroll the device using an AD service account.
From here I will assume that you already have the macclient.dmg which should look like this:
First we need to create a package that contains our Client Tools. If you have created packages before this should be a relatively straight forward process. I used Composer and ended up with something looking like this:
We now need to create an enrollment script, or two.
I have two scripts – these are on my github check there for current versions Project durain mac os.
The first script (sccm_enrollment.sh) defines our environment variables such as server address and then passes them as arguments to our second script (expect_enrollment.sh)
sccm_enrollment.sh
The second script takes these arguments and then uses the expect shell to interactively respond to the password promopt
expect_enrollment.sh Spark boy mac os.
So now we have these scripts we will need to package them up. So create another package.
So now we have should have 3 packages, our CMClient.pkg from MS and our two custom packages.
I use Packages from WhiteBox to create a Distribution package that contains all of our packages and a post flight.
So create a new Distribution Package, give it a name a location and create the project
Now ensure that you put in unique identifier and give it a useful version number. Also note that the CMClient.pkg requires a restart, so we will also require a restart here.
We can skip the Payload and move across to Scripts
Drag in the 3 packages to Additional Resources
Create a postflight script that installs our packages and then runs our enrollment script.
Mine is available on my github and it looks like this The shrouded isle (itch) mac os.
set this as your post-installation script.
Now build the package (Build menu -> Build)
You should now have a package that you can deploy using pretty much any method that will install and enroll SCCM with out any user intervention and while the machine is unattended (Loginwindow)
Built-in support for Classic is gone in 10.5 and Intel Macs:
Classic, is the ability to use Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Classic to run Mac OS 9 simultaneously with Mac OS X, and access Mac OS 9 applications from Mac OS X without having to go through Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Startup Disk to select Mac OS 9's System Folder. Many drivers that booting into Mac OS 9 are not supported in Classic environment. Multiple disk games frequently require imaging all the discs and mounting first while using Classic, when booting into Mac OS 9 allows hot swapping of the same physical discs. Classic requires there be a Mac OS 9 system folder present with Mac OS 9.1, 9.2.1, or 9.2.2. Macs that date on/later than 9.2.1's August 21, 2001 release must use their original installer disks to install Mac OS 9. Booting into Mac OS 9, only requires the Mac OS 9 that is the same age or newer be installed in the Mac. Macs too old to install Mac OS X, can only install up to 9.1 if they are PowerPC (except the ones that are 53xx/54xx/63xx/64xx and fail its firmware test and those can only install up to System 7.5.5).
Mac OS 9 is not to be confused with Mac OS X 10.9, Mavericks, of the similar name. 13 years separate their release.
Vegas slot machines for free. A few Macs officially support both booting into 9 and 10.5 without an additional partition or hard drive with booting via Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Startup Disk in 10.5, and Apple menu -> Control Panels -> Startup Disk in 9 or booting holding the X key on a restart from Mac OS 9 boot. They are these models:
PowerMac G4 867 and faster QuickSilver
PowerMac G4 1 through 1.25 Ghz MDD with no Firewire 800 port (see below)*
eMac 1 Ghz model M8950LL/A
Powerbook G4 867 Mhz and greater with rear USB ports between the hinges under a flap.
To get those Macs to support Mac OS 9 booting, an erase (yes that means losing all data presently on that disk) and install requires installing with Mac OS 9 drivers before installing Mac OS X or Mac OS 9, as this article explains:
No iMacs, nor iBooks meet the requirement.
Some CPU upgrade card Macs may support dual booting. Check with the third party manufacturer of the CPU upgrade card if that is possible.
For more on 10.5's offerings, see this tip.
I use Packages from WhiteBox to create a Distribution package that contains all of our packages and a post flight.
So create a new Distribution Package, give it a name a location and create the project
Now ensure that you put in unique identifier and give it a useful version number. Also note that the CMClient.pkg requires a restart, so we will also require a restart here.
We can skip the Payload and move across to Scripts
Drag in the 3 packages to Additional Resources
Create a postflight script that installs our packages and then runs our enrollment script.
Mine is available on my github and it looks like this The shrouded isle (itch) mac os.
set this as your post-installation script.
Now build the package (Build menu -> Build)
You should now have a package that you can deploy using pretty much any method that will install and enroll SCCM with out any user intervention and while the machine is unattended (Loginwindow)
Built-in support for Classic is gone in 10.5 and Intel Macs:
Classic, is the ability to use Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Classic to run Mac OS 9 simultaneously with Mac OS X, and access Mac OS 9 applications from Mac OS X without having to go through Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Startup Disk to select Mac OS 9's System Folder. Many drivers that booting into Mac OS 9 are not supported in Classic environment. Multiple disk games frequently require imaging all the discs and mounting first while using Classic, when booting into Mac OS 9 allows hot swapping of the same physical discs. Classic requires there be a Mac OS 9 system folder present with Mac OS 9.1, 9.2.1, or 9.2.2. Macs that date on/later than 9.2.1's August 21, 2001 release must use their original installer disks to install Mac OS 9. Booting into Mac OS 9, only requires the Mac OS 9 that is the same age or newer be installed in the Mac. Macs too old to install Mac OS X, can only install up to 9.1 if they are PowerPC (except the ones that are 53xx/54xx/63xx/64xx and fail its firmware test and those can only install up to System 7.5.5).
Mac OS 9 is not to be confused with Mac OS X 10.9, Mavericks, of the similar name. 13 years separate their release.
Vegas slot machines for free. A few Macs officially support both booting into 9 and 10.5 without an additional partition or hard drive with booting via Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Startup Disk in 10.5, and Apple menu -> Control Panels -> Startup Disk in 9 or booting holding the X key on a restart from Mac OS 9 boot. They are these models:
PowerMac G4 867 and faster QuickSilver
PowerMac G4 1 through 1.25 Ghz MDD with no Firewire 800 port (see below)*
eMac 1 Ghz model M8950LL/A
Powerbook G4 867 Mhz and greater with rear USB ports between the hinges under a flap.
To get those Macs to support Mac OS 9 booting, an erase (yes that means losing all data presently on that disk) and install requires installing with Mac OS 9 drivers before installing Mac OS X or Mac OS 9, as this article explains:
No iMacs, nor iBooks meet the requirement.
Some CPU upgrade card Macs may support dual booting. Check with the third party manufacturer of the CPU upgrade card if that is possible.
For more on 10.5's offerings, see this tip.
While older Macs may work with Leopard with a special Target Disk Mode based install, this is not an officially recognized configuration, meaning any attempt to do so is on your own, with all the risks of maintaining and upgrading that configuration up to you.
Backup your data at least twice before attempting any upgrades.
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It is possible to add an external firewire hard drive, or partition an existing hard drive of a Mac that supported Tiger to have a dual-boot Tiger/Leopard configuration on 867 Mhz G4 and faster PowerPC Macs. Weirdro mac os. Partitioning will wipe the contents of the hard drive, so backup your data at least twice before proceeding. Here's how to partition:
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This will also allow using Classic in the Tiger booting session if installed from the Mac's original restore discs:
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and/or retail installer for 9 if newer than those discs.
Those discs can typically be obtained by calling AppleCare if you lost them, or asking the original seller of the machine to give you the restore discs. If they lost them, they should call AppleCare on your behalf and give them to you.
AppleCare can be reached here:
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The ports on the back of the MDD PowerMac G4 image above show where Firewire 800 is, if it is present. When it is not present in that location, the MDD PowerMac G4 can boot into Mac OS 9, even when Mac OS X 10.5 is installed, via Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Startup Disc. When Firewire 800 is present you must install 10.4.11 or earlier on a second hard drive internally, a partition of the 10.5 or later drive, or an external Firewire hard drive if you wish to use Mac OS 9 in its Classic environment. Booting is not available to Mac OS 9 with Firewire 800 built-in PowerMac G4s. Either way, to get Mac OS 9 on the PowerMac G4 MDD models, you need to use the original PowerMac G4 installer discs that came with it following the restore directions below:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1561
