Support for Mac and Linux/UNIX clients in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection

Customer support for Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1) and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection SP1 clients differs among the various Macintosh and Linux/UNIX operating systems. This article describes this support to help customers be aware of the differences and also of the effort to standardize the support for both clients.

Original product version:   Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection
Original KB number:   2798547

For the most recent information, refer to Supported Configurations for Configuration Manager.

The following information describes the supported versions of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection SP1 running on various Macintosh and Linux/UNIX operating systems.

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1

For Mac-based clients

Note

The client for the Macintosh operating systems is supported only on Mac computers that use an Intel 64-bit chipset.

The following operating systems are supported for the Configuration Manager client for Mac computers:

  • macOS X 10.7 (Lion)
  • macOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

For Linux/UNIX-based clients

The following operating systems are supported for the Configuration Manager client for Linux/UNIX-based computers:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • Version 6 (x86 and x64)
    • Version 5 (x86 and x64)
    • Version 4 (x86 and x64)
  • Solaris
    • Version 10 (x86 and SPARC)
    • Version 9 (SPARC)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
    • Version 11 (x64 and x86)
    • Version 10 SP1 (x64 and x86)
    • Version 9 (x86)

For more information, see Supported Configurations for Configuration Manager.

System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection SP1

For Mac-based clients

Note

The client for the Macintosh operating systems is supported only on Mac computers that use an Intel 64-bit chipset.

The following operating systems are supported for System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection SP1 clients for Mac computers:

  • macOS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
  • macOS X 10.7 (Lion)
  • macOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

For Linux/UNIX-based clients

The following operating systems are supported for System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection SP1 clients for Linux/UNIX-based computer:

  • RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL): versions 6, 5, and 4 (x64 and x86)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): versions 11, 10, and 9 (x64 and x86)
  • CentOS: versions 6 and 5
  • Debian: versions 6 and 5
  • Ubuntu: versions 12.04 and 10.04
  • Oracle Linux: versions 6 and 5