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Upskill SCCM Admins in the Cloud Era

Upskill SCCM Admins in the Cloud Era

Written By Anoop C Nair
Last Updated July 1, 2024
Posted In SCCM
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Today we will discuss about Upskill SCCM Admins in the Cloud Era. Let’s enhance your SCCM admin knowledge by delving into Mac device management. Together, we can explore the available options and find the best approach.

Upskilling SCCM admins is a big topic; I won’t cover that in this post. Many cloud-based features were introduced in the recent releases of SCCM 1906 (and, of course, previous versions). The following are some of them:

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Upskill SCCM Admins in the Cloud Era – Table.1
  • Azure AD User Group Discovery
  • Azure AD User Discovery
  • Desktop Analytics
  • Improved Co-management options
  • Integration with Delivery Optimisation technologies
  • SCCM Collection Sync with Azure AD Group

There are two “kinds” of management options for Mac devices from an SCCM perspective. I have explained SCCM Mac management options in the previous post.

Upskill SCCM Admins in the Cloud Era - Fig.1
Upskill SCCM Admins in the Cloud Era – Fig.1

Upskill SCCM Admins

Upskill SCCM admins knowledge yourself by learning more about Mac device management. I feel SCCM admins need to upskill themselves to keep them on the job. How many of you tested Cloud Management Gateway/Cloud DP, etc.?

Patch My PC

Some of the other perspectives of “Upskill SCCM admins” are explained in one of my previous posts.

Full Mac Device Management

Let’s learn more options for Mac device management using SCCM and Parallel’s plugin. With this Parallel integration, you can make SCCM more powerful with full Mac device management options.

Upskill SCCM Admins in the Cloud Era - Fig.2
Upskill SCCM Admins in the Cloud Era – Fig.2
  • SCCM software application deployment models
  • Mac imaging
  • Patch management
  • FileVault encryption

Learn SCCM Mac Device Management

There are many learning resources available below to upskill SCCM admins. There are free on-demand webinars and video tutorials available in the following links. You can start learning SCCM Mac device management and upskill SCCM knowledge.

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Anoop C Nair is Microsoft MVP! He is a Device Management Admin with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. He writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc.

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11+ years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

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