Use a separate MP for Mac clients?

We are looking to add Mac clients to our current ConfigMgr 2012 R2 infrastructure.  I currently have one HTTP Intranet only MP on the internal network, and one HTTPS Intranet/Internet MP in the DMZ (separate AD forest, and only accessible by DMZ/Internet clients).  Since I don't have my internal MP configured for HTTPS or have it configured with an Internet FQDN:

1) Would it be advisable to just stand up an additional internal MP and configure it for HTTPS intranet/internet for the Macs?  Would the intranet clients that have a certificate use that as well instead of the HTTP MP?

2) Would I need to use the same Internet FQDN on the internal MP that I have defined on the DMZ MP, or can they be different?

August 19th, 2015 9:08am

1. Unless you want to deploy certificates to all of your managed Windows systems, you don't have a choice here, you must deploy an additional HTTPS MP. Yes, Intranet clients with a cert will use it.

2. No, that doesn't make sense. It's not an Internet MP so you would just specify the server's own name as the FQDN.

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August 19th, 2015 10:57am

My concern is this - We have users with Windows laptops that connect both intranet and internet.  Right now, they have the DMZ MP's public DNS FQDN as their "Internet-based management point (FQDN)".  My fear is that if I set the "Internet-based management point (FQDN)" on a new MP to be its internal FQDN, clients will try to use that DNS name to try to connect to when they are on the internet.  

EX:

PC1 is connected to MP2 on the inside network, and gets MP2.contoso-internal.net as it the Internet-based MP.  PC1 then connects to the internet, and tries to connect to MP2.contoso-internal.net, instead of cmmp.contoso.com (which is the DMZ based MP).

Sorry if I've made this more confusing than it should be.  :-)

August 19th, 2015 11:43am

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