Parallels Desktop for Mac v10 Deployment?

[athomson]

It appears Parallels has moved to using a custom installer application that doesn't appear to have any parameters to perform a silent install via policy. Has anyone worked on this issue yet? I see no KB articles on their site that offer any solution. We have an Enterprise license and key code, but no way to install the product via Casper. I'm wondering if I will have to resort to using a snapshot to create a custom install. Thoughts?

[emily]

I was under the impression that Parallels had a deployer pkg built-in, kind of like VMware. Does this guide help you at all? http://kb.parallels.com/en/120093

[MikeF]

I have just completed setting up our package. For the enterprise version that we use parallels has a deployment package. You add the license # in a script. The latest install DMG and you are all set. You can also add a windows vm using their tools but all we do is install the package. It works fine. But this is all Enterprise. Complete directions are on the Business support site. http://www.parallels.com/products/business/support/

[athomson]

I am familiar with the auto deploy package that is available for pervious versions of the application. However, it relies on the fact that the installer for previous version is a standard package installer (MPKG) and not an applications (APP). Package installers can run silently from the command line. This latest app version cannot.

Mike, I looked on the Business Support site and did not find a reference to the deployment of version 10. Do you have a direct link to an article? Thanks everyone.

[MikeF]

ok on that website you will find this document
Parallels Desktop Enterprise Edition Mass Deployment Guide

It has all the directions and the link to the deployment package.

it is here
http://download.parallels.com/desktop/tools/pd-autodeploy.zip

[timlarsen]

Does anyone know if the Deployment Package's licensing component still fails on clients behind a web proxy? With 9 this was a major issue... at least up through the version I was using. Thanks!

[Peterson]

Documentation for Parallels Desktop 10 will be updated later next week on our website.

[donmontalvo]

Thanks @Peterson! Hope to see you and @ccapo11 at JNUC 2014!

EDIT: We just a request for this, hoping deployment will be as easy as in the past. :)

[athomson]

@Peterson Any update on this. I don't see any new forum or KB posts that address this issue. Thanks. --Andrew

[Peterson]

A new Deployment pkg for PD 10 is currently going thru QA. If you are currently experiencing deployment issues please contact your Parallels Account representative so that we can investigate. Please mention I sent you

[mfridley]

Wanting to deploy this week. Are we better off to use PD 9 at this point?

[Peterson]

If you have a proven process with PDE 9 I would go with that and upgrade later when the full feature set is available

[ocla__09]

@Peterson I notice that the Autodeploy.pkg now has a creation date of 9/2. I assume this is the QA'ed fix to the issues outlined above?

[RobertHammen]

@Peterson Any idea when the version 10 Deployment package and Mass Deployment Guide will be available? I have a large deployment project next week where part of it includes Parallels 10 deployment and, being the consultant, I do not have a Parallels account representative to contact...

[Peterson]

The link below is to the Parallels Desktop Enterprise Admin Guide for Parallels Desktop 10. It contains the download link for the Deployment pkg as well as instructions for configuration and deployment.

http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v10/docs/en_US/Parallels%20Desktop%20Enterprise%20for%20IT%20Administrators.pdf

http://download.parallels.com/desktop/tools/pd-autodeploy.zip

[RobertHammen]

@Peterson Thank you very much!!! Greatly appreciated!

[RobertHammen]

Okay, trying to use the script posted here by @donmontalvo (along with a launchd) to make the VMs available to new users, or even running the command manually, get an error "Unable to get full path for no". A quick glance at the prlctl didn't lead to anything. Either the posted script is malformed or this doesn't work with Parallels 10 any longer. @Peterson, any thoughts?

#!/bin/sh

IFS=":"
for pvm_file in $( ls "/Users/Shared/Parallels" | grep .pvm | tr 'n' ':' ); do
prlctl register "/Users/Shared/Parallels/${pvm_file}" --preserve-uuid no
done
unset IFS
exit 0

[parallels]

Hi there,
Just an FYI to some of the comments on this thread...the links posted by @Peterson on 9/25 is the most current information regarding the deployment of Parallels Desktop Enterprise. We did make a few modifications to the pkg deployment tool when we released Parallels Desktop v10 so please download the latest version is you are deploying PD 10. The Mass Deployment Guide which used to be a separate download from the Parallels site has been incorporated into the new Parallels Desktop Admin guide beginning on page 30. In addition to posts on this forum, feel free to PM me if you wish..

[timlarsen]

Hi again - I'm wondering if anyone (like me) has clients behind a web proxy and can't get Parallels 10 to activate when deploying using the Autodeploy PKG (I had the same issue with v9). Interestingly, other attributes in the deploy.cfg file DO work, such as telling it to check for update - never. Activation works fine manually, but it would be great if this could happen silently. Anyone have experience with this or any workarounds?

[donmontalvo]

Hi David (@parallels][/url), welcome to the forum!

Should the new enterprise deployment process be calling home? If not the proxy shouldn't get in the way.

Don

[Peterson]

Hi Tim,
Could you please reach out to me a cpeterson@parallels.com