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Originally Posted by zinengineer

I've got Apple products and not thrilled about the option of having to run windows environment in an Apple MacBook....even my Apple genius son suggests that's a path he'd really rather me not go down

It is rather straightforward. Though, this is coming from someone who has not touched an apple product in 20 years:

• Mac with Windows Virtualization (eg, Parallels, VMFusion, Oracle Virtualbox, or Apple Bootcamp)
  • Parallels & VMWare: Network Adapter configuration should be set to Bridged Network mode.