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Tools That Manage Both Macs and PCs

Posted by kdawson on from the one-tool-to-rule-them-all dept.

johannacw writes "Ryan Faas takes a look at nine tools that handle system management tasks in both Mac and Windows environments for both clients and servers. The tools span a range of tasks such as remote installation, license management, and helpdesk functions. The author gives opinions on each tool's strengths and weaknesses and does not pick an overall winner."

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  1. Re:Obligartory... by Sorthum · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Our desktop folks (used interchangeably here with "idiots") recently purchased LANdesk, and they're quite pleased that it can reportedly manage linux/unix, and immediately asked to test it on my (BSD) desktop.

    So supposedly it can, but damned if I'm going to let the monkeys screw with my BSD desktop...

  2. Missing by kandresen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They missed Webmin... http://www.webmin.com/

    Can simplify management tasks quite well for Windows, Mac, Linux, and most other flavors of Unix...