Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft sccm

Parallels Mac Management


for Microsoft SCCM

Trial-in-a-Box Guide

Version 1.0

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Contents

What’s Inside 3

What You Will Need 3

Getting Windows Server 2012R2 3

Assign Unique GUID 3

Activate Parallels Mac Management Trial 5

Get a Mac Computer 6

Administrator Guide 6

FAQ and Troubleshooting 7

What’s Inside

A virtual machine with the following components installed and ready to use:

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  Windows Server 2012 R2
  
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  Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP (stopped)
  
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  SCCM current branch 1702, including MSSQL server
  
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  Parallels® Mac Management for Microsoft® SCCM Version 6, installed and preconfigured to work with SCCM (needs activating)
  

What You Will Need

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  A server with Hyper-V installed or a qualifying Windows 10 laptop with Hyper-V role enabled
  
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  At least 90 GB of free disk space
  
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  At least one additional macOS computer or virtual machine to try out discovery and management features
  
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  Parallels Mac Management trial key (which should be on its way to you as you read this guide)
  
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  Network access to the internet on port 443
  

Getting Windows Server 2012R2

1. 
   Download all chunks of the virtual machine image here.
   
2. 
   Launch any chunk of the image to start decompressing.
   
3. 
   Create a new Hyper-V virtual machine using the virtual hard disk from the archive you downloaded. Enable network in the Hyper-V virtual machine.
   

Assign Unique GUID

You will need to obtain a unique GUID for the Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine to be able to register a Parallels Mac Management trial key.

You can generate a unique GUID here.

Then launch the Windows registry editor in the virtual machine and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\pma_cm_proxy\Parameters

Look for the SiteGUID string value and paste the generated GUID into the value field. If there is already the SiteGUID string, simply update its value with your new GUID.

Open Services and restart Parallels Configuration Manager Proxy service.

Activate Parallels Mac Management Trial

You should have already received a trial key after you requested this trial-in-a-box. If not, please call [phone] or email [e-mail] to ask for your trial key.

After you receive a key, you will need to register it under you Parallels Business Account to be able to activate the product. Go to account.parallels.com/#/register and sign up, or sign in if you already have an account.

In the account, navigate to “Subscription and Licenses” > “Register a License Key” and register the license key.

Then go to your Windows Server 2012 R2, open SCCM, and click “Administration.” Expand Parallels Mac Management, click on “License,” and select “Activate” on the right pane.

Copy the license key you registered in the previous step.

Get a Mac Computer

To be able to try out Parallels Mac Management features, you will need at least one macOS client machine.

Administrator Guide

See the Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM Administrator Guide for information on how you can discover and manage Mac computers: parallels.com/products/mac-management/resources/

FAQ and Troubleshooting

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  Make sure the DNS server in macOS computer matches the DNS sever of the Server Manager.
  

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  Windows Server 2012 R2 domain is pmm12.dom, account is administrator, and the password is 1q2w3e!