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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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    Another example came up just today. We have both PC and MAC laptops that are being used by students. We reserve our bandwidth for educational purposes, therefore we don't allow streaming music, such as pandora.com. I have a policy set up in the sophos enterprise console for students' computers, that blocks access to pandora.com streaming music. This policy works great on the PCs, but even though sophos is applied to the MACs, it won't work. Now before you jump on me that we can just block pandora.com on our firewall, which I'm well aware of, that's not my point. It is nice to be able to block it via the sophos client that resides directly on the client, therefore eliminating additional traffic traversing on the internal network, and firewall cpu usage. This is a exact example of why I'm extremely disappointed that the same sophos policies can not work on both PCs and MACs. 

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    Another example came up just today. We have both PC and MAC laptops that are being used by students. We reserve our bandwidth for educational purposes, therefore we don't allow streaming music, such as pandora.com. I have a policy set up in the sophos enterprise console for students' computers, that blocks access to pandora.com streaming music. This policy works great on the PCs, but even though sophos is applied to the MACs, it won't work. Now before you jump on me that we can just block pandora.com on our firewall, which I'm well aware of, that's not my point. It is nice to be able to block it via the sophos client that resides directly on the client, therefore eliminating additional traffic traversing on the internal network, and firewall cpu usage. This is a exact example of why I'm extremely disappointed that the same sophos policies can not work on both PCs and MACs. 

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