End of support for SCEP for Mac and Linux on 31 December 2018

[Arthur]

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Configuration-Manager-Blog/End-of-Support-for-SCEP-for-Mac-and-SCEP-for-Linux-on-December/ba-p/286257

 

Support for System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) for Mac and Linux (all versions) ends on December 31, 2018. Availability of new virus definitions for SCEP for Mac and SCEP for Linux may be discontinued after the end of support. This discontinuation may occur without notice. If you are using any version of SCEP for Mac or SCEP for Linux, plan to migrate to a replacement endpoint protection product for Mac and Linux clients.

 

How does this affect me?

Starting today, customers with active deployments of SCEP for Mac will have the option to get ESET Endpoint Security for Mac. If you qualify, contact your Technical Account Manager (TAM) or technical support to get more information.

 

No replacement is being made available for SCEP for Linux.

 

If you are using Configuration Manager current branch version 1810 or later, Management Insights will help alert you to the presence of Mac and Linux clients in your environments.

[Norphy]

It’s nice to see something other than a twitter post and a obscure link in SCCM about this.

 

Do you think they mean they’ll give you ESET as part of the desktop CAL pack or will we have to pay extra for it?

[Roberto]

We've got a call out to our account manager to see what the verdict is on this.

[Norphy]

I saw a link to this on the VLSC today:

 

https://www.eset.com/int/scep/

[Roberto]

That's good news. I thought that SCEP for Mac practically was ESET anyway, so that's all good.

[Arthur]

Hello ESET Endpoint Antivirus! Deployment, management and migrating from SCEP.

 

Following Microsoft’s announcement that System Centre Endpoint Protection (SCEP) for macOS and Linux is to be discontinued by the end of this year, their recommended migration path is to switch to ESET Cyber Security. In fact, ESET are granting anyone wishing to switch a year’s subscription for free, which is nice.

 

It’s been difficult to find a central repository of information around how to migrate, what the options are and how to deploy and configure ESET. Things seem to be scattered around forum posts, knowledge base articles, or behind a wall of reverse engineering and poking. So let’s have a look (with a Jamf-twist although these things should be possible with other popular deployment tools).

 

^ This blog post contains a lot of useful info.