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•  M1 DEP builds work
•  Izzy stack (munki, Managed Software Center, izzy-client) all work
•  VPN is supported and works
•  CrashPlan is supported and works
•  Anti-Malware is supported and works
•  Major application suites work:
•  Office
•  Adobe Acrobat
•  Adobe Creative Cloud suite (hand-installed only at this time)
•  Box Drive (
  Box Drive is not supported on M1 systems; Box is being phased out at U-M and we encourage you to move to Dropbox).
•  Dropbox
•  Google Drive

Applications

Adobe titles - including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat - are not able to be distributed through Managed Software Center due to bugs in Adobe’s installers. As a workaroundInstead, we deploy the Creative Cloud desktop app ; and users can then use it to install the Creative Cloud apps they use.

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Box Drive does not work at all. Google Drive (v47 or later)and Dropbox (v109.4.517 or later) seems seem to work.

Some HP Printers (mostly older single-user MFPs that used kernel extensions to support scanning over USB) are missing drivers. Many home printers may work through AirPrint, however AirPrint will not work with campus printers.

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Developer Virtualization (Docker)

Docker has a preview version for Apple Silicon (released 16 December 2020). However: the same caveats about Linux desktop virtualization hold: you will need to be using ARM-specific binaries/containers. Not all containers are available for all architectures. While Docker Desktop can run x86 containers under qemu, we’ve not had a great experience with it - containers crash easily and often under emulation.

It’s not know how portable the Apple Silicon instruction set is to e.g. AWS Graviton2 - there may be issues when pushing a Docker image built on an Apple Silicon Mac to other ARMv8 processors.

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