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Enterprise console management for MAC OS?

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I'm running enterprise console version 5.2.1 R2. Client software is Sophos Endpoint Security and Control version 10.3. I have been able to install the MAC client successfully. But I am not able to manage the MACs on the enterprise console. When we purchased Sophos, we were told it can run on both PCs and MACs. But wasn't told to us, is that it does not support the policies. I got this information from sophos support. I am angry that we were not given these specifics prior to the purchase. Has anyone had any success using the enterprise console and managing macs? What good does it do to bother installing sophos on the MACs then? 

Following is a list of policies we do not support on Mac OS X:
Firewall
NAC
Application Control
Data Control
Device Control (will come with v9.1)
Full Disk Encryption
Tamper Protection (will come with v9.1)
Patch
Web Control

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    ruckus- Thank you for the clarification. That KBA is exactly what I'm talking about. It shows what features are available for which platform specifically. 

    Terrance and Christian- We DO use AV on the MACs for it's AV protection qualities. We are an educational institution, so in addition to our firewall, it has been very convienent to have features on the sophos management console to help in managing the client's application and web control policies specifically. We're able to block specific web sites and applications right there on the client machine by the sophos client installed on the machine. These are  the exact features lacking on the sophos mac client. And that is our huge disappointment, that we can not 'tweak' the mac sophos client and take advantage of some of the client control issues that we can on our windows clients.

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    ruckus- Thank you for the clarification. That KBA is exactly what I'm talking about. It shows what features are available for which platform specifically. 

    Terrance and Christian- We DO use AV on the MACs for it's AV protection qualities. We are an educational institution, so in addition to our firewall, it has been very convienent to have features on the sophos management console to help in managing the client's application and web control policies specifically. We're able to block specific web sites and applications right there on the client machine by the sophos client installed on the machine. These are  the exact features lacking on the sophos mac client. And that is our huge disappointment, that we can not 'tweak' the mac sophos client and take advantage of some of the client control issues that we can on our windows clients.

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