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Please understand that the content herein is for informational purposes only. However, if you are are here to talk about APP and DMG files, then read on! DISCLAIMER

If you missed it, you can check out the post about deploying PKG files in the previous post. Otherwise, this should be all you need to deploy these DMG apps for Endpoint Manager. Here is a better break down if you want more information about the different types for MacOS. The DMG file type can contain either of the previously mentioned file types, and can be used to more easily transport application files. When an application comes packaged in a DMG, you are really just mounting that DMG file, and then executing the application from there. What about “DMG” types you say? Well DMG is really more of a storage device, similar to an ISO in Windows. With these file types, they just get copied directly into the Applications folder, and run without an installation process. APP Type – I think of this being similar to a “ portable app” in Windows. May contain multiple steps, scripts or files within the package PKG Type – This is the most common, and is most similar to a “.exe” type. In MacOS, those most common ones are “.pkg” and “.app”. In Windows, we have “.exe” and “.msi” formats are the most common. This happens because there are different types of applications to be deployed to MacOS. There are two main methods of deploying MacOS apps we will talk about. Let’s take a look below to understand the difference a little better between these different types. Now that is a lot of acronyms in a short period of time. Now it is time to discuss how to deploy DMG apps. So in the previous post, we talked about using Intune (MEM) to deploy PKG apps for MacOS.