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Using a mobile device management (MDM) server you likely already have, such as those from MobileIron and VMware's AirWatch unit, for iPhones and iPads you can manage Macs' security and configuration remotely, based on Active Directory groups.

As of OS X Lion and moreso OS X Mountain Lion, Apple made most of its iOS management and security APIs available to OS X.

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There are also System Center add-ons to extend Mac management capabilities, such as from Centrify.

Microsoft's System Center supports Macs running OS X Yosemite if running a Microsoft configuration client.

The more Windows-like your management approach, the more it will cost to manage your Macs. The good news is that you can manage Macs for the same or lower cost, depending on the approach you take. Gartner estimates that IT organizations spend $2,000 to $2,300 per user per year to manage and secure their Windows PCs. Windows has lots of security and management APIs, of course, which let IT go to town in securing and managing them using tools like System Center - at a huge cost.

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It still shocks me how much time and money IT organizations spend on securing Windows PCs, such as for incessant antivirus updates and frequent infection-cleanup efforts, for managing backups and encryption, and for dealing with dozens of often problematic fixes every month in the infamous Patch Tuesday releases. (I hear similar stats from CIOs I meet at conferences, though so few companies use Macs to any scale that all I can offer are such anecdotes, rather than statistical 'proof.') The Mac aids your security and recovery needs

For example, Cisco Systems, once adamantly an anti-Mac company, now has about 20 percent of its users on Macs ( that's 35,000 Macs), a feat that turned out to be easily accomplished and did not increase IT resource needs.

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Why? Because having a certain percentage of non-Windows users provides a fail-over capability in case of a malware or hacking meltdown, as well as lets some users work with devices they are more comfortable with.Ī good metric is that about 15 to 25 percent of employees should be using a Mac, with the higher percentage aimed at companies that focus on software and creative work. 'Regular' office workers should be given a choice as to whether to use Windows or OS X, if their job requirements are satisfied by either platform. Why? Because Macs are better suited to thwarting phishing and other attacks on these sensitive users' systems and for operating outside your network. The bottom line: Executives and road warriors are the best candidates for Mac use in a company, in addition to the historic Mac enclaves of application development and creative functions such as marketing and design.

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Windows PCs, running Windows 7 today and Windows 10 in a few years, will remain the standard computing device for the majority of users.

An all-Mac environment is as unreasonable as an all-Windows one.

Macs cost the same as business-class PCs, and their total cost of ownership (TCO) is usually lower.

Macs do what most people need, though there are critical corporate needs that only Windows apps serve.

Macs provide an operational recovery option that an all-Windows environment doesn't.

Macs are more secure out of the box than Windows PCs.

The truth is not black and white, but the following are true, even if many IT shops remain willfully ignorant to the facts and hang on to Mac realities and stereotypes from the 1990s: That wasn't my intent, but those comments made me think about where the Mac fits in the enterprise and what causes so many IT organizations to be so emotionally opposed to having non-Windows PCs in their companies.

When I said last week that Windows 10 won't save the PC, some Windows-addled IT folks said I was secretly suggesting that enterprises replace their PCs with Macs.

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