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Parallels Mac Management Features
2 On the General page, click the Browse button next to the Collection field and select the
collection containing the desired Mac resources (e.g. All Mac OS X Systems). Click OK and
then click Next.
3 On the Content page, verify the distribution point info and click Next.
4 Click Next on the Deployment Settings page.
5 On the Scheduling page, specify the schedule for this deployment. Click New to specify the
assignment schedule. When done, click Next.
6 Use the default values on the rest of the wizard pages and complete the wizard.
The software will be advertised to Macs in the specified collection and will be distributed to them
according to the schedule that you specified.
Viewing Status of a Package
While software distribution is in progress, the Mac Client running on target Mac computers will
report to the Configuration Manager the following events:
• Download started — the event is reported when the client on a Mac begins downloading the
software.
• Download finished — the event is reported when the package download is complete.
• Download failed — the event is reported if the package download fails.
To view the status of a package:
1 In the Configuration Manager console, navigate to Monitoring / Overview / System Status /
Deployments.
2 In the right pane, right-click the package and then click View Status in the pop-up menu.
3 Use the Deployment Status view to examine the deployment status.
Deploying Mac OS X Images
The Mac OS X image deployment functionality allows to deploy Mac OS X on Mac computers. The
following steps describes the Mac OS X image deployment procedure.
Step 1: Install Operating System Deployment (OSD) component
Parallels Mac Management includes a NetBoot Server component that must be installed and
configured to enable the Mac OS X image deployment functionality. NetBoot is a technology from
Apple that enables Mac computers to boot from a network. The NetBoot server is installed using
the Parallels Mac Management installation wizard. If you skipped this option when you installed
Parallels Mac Management, you can run the installation wizard and select the NetBoot Server
option. For more information about installing and configuring the NetBoot server see Prepare Your
Computers for Installation and Install Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM (p. 31).