Working effectively with Apple platforms at a corporate or business
level includes not only infrastructure, but a mode of thinking that
administrators have to adopt to find success. A mode of thinking that
forces you to leave 30 years of IT dogma at the door. This book is a
guide through how to integrate Apple products in your environment with a
minimum of friction. Because the Apple ecosystem is not going away.
You'll start by understanding where Apple, third-party software vendors,
and the IT community is taking us. What is Mobile Device Management and
how does it work under the hood. By understanding how MDM works, you
will understand what needs to happen on your networks in order to allow
for MDM, as well as the best way to give the least amount of access to
the servers or services that's necessary. You'll then look at management
agents that do not include MDM, as well as when you will need to use an
agent as opposed to when to use other options. Once you can install a
management solution, you can deploy profiles on a device or you can
deploy profiles on Macs using scripts.
With Apple Device Management as your guide, you'll customize and
package software for deployment and lock down devices so they're
completely secure. You'll also work on getting standard QA environments
built out, so you can test more effectively with less effort.
This thoroughly revised and expanded Second Edition provides new
coverage and updates on daemons and agents, declarative management,
Gatekeeper, script options, SSO tools, Azure/Apple Business Essentials
integrations and much more.
You will
- Deploy profiles across devices effectively and securely
- Install apps remotely both from the app store and through custom
solutions
- Work natively with Apple environments rather than retrofitting older
IT solutions
Who This Book Is For
Mac administrators within organizations that want to integrate with the
current Apple ecosystem, including Windows administrators learning how
to use/manage Macs, mobile administrators working with iPhones and
iPads, and mobile developers tasked with creating custom apps for
internal, corporate distribution.
