Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple platform deployment
- What’s new
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- Accessibility payload settings
- Active Directory Certificate payload settings
- AirPlay payload settings
- AirPlay Security payload settings
- AirPrint payload settings
- App Lock payload settings
- Associated Domains payload settings
- Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) payload settings
- Autonomous Single App Mode payload settings
- Calendar payload settings
- Mobile payload settings
- Mobile Private Network payload settings
- Certificate Preference payload settings
- Certificate Revocation payload settings
- Certificate Transparency payload settings
- Certificates payload settings
- Conference Room Display payload settings
- Contacts payload settings
- Content Caching payload settings
- Directory Service payload settings
- DNS Proxy payload settings
- DNS Settings payload settings
- Fonts payload settings
- Domains payload settings
- Energy Saver payload settings
- Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) payload settings
- Exchange Web Services (EWS) payload settings
- Extensible Single Sign-on payload settings
- Extensible Single Sign-on Kerberos payload settings
- Extensions payload settings
- FileVault payload settings
- Finder payload settings
- Firewall payload settings
- Fonts payload settings
- Global HTTP Proxy payload settings
- Google Accounts payload settings
- Home Screen Layout payload settings
- Identification payload settings
- Identity Preference payload settings
- Kernel Extension Policy payload settings
- LDAP payload settings
- Lights Out Management payload settings
- Lock Screen Message payload settings
- Login Window payload settings
- Managed Login Items payload settings
- Mail payload settings
- Network Usage Rules payload settings
- Notifications payload settings
- Parental Controls payload settings
- Passcode payload settings
- Printing payload settings
- Privacy Preferences Policy Control payload settings
- Relay payload settings
- SCEP payload settings
- Security payload settings
- Setup Assistant payload settings
- Single Sign-on payload settings
- Smart Card payload settings
- Subscribed Calendars payload settings
- System Extensions payload settings
- System Migration payload settings
- Time Machine payload specifics
- TV Remote payload settings
- Web Clips payload settings
- Web Content Filter payload settings
- LDAP payload settings
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- Declarative app configuration settings
- Authentication credentials and identity asset settings
- Calendar declarative settings
- Certificates declarative configuration
- Contacts declarative configuration
- Exchange declarative configuration
- Google Accounts declarative configuration
- LDAP declarative configuration
- Legacy interactive profile declarative configuration
- Legacy profile declarative configuration
- Mail declarative configuration
- Passcode declarative configuration
- Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
- Screen Sharing declarative configuration
- Service configuration files declarative configuration
- Software Update declarative configuration
- Subscribed Calendars declarative configuration
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Intro to planning your MDM migration
Your organisation may want to migrate away from your current MDM solution to another one. This migration can be for devices owned by your organisation or devices owned by the user. This includes devices using Shared iPad mode and devices deployed in a one-to-one environment such as a school where each student uses an iPad.
Migration stages
Migration includes the following stages:
Documenting the current MDM environment and its dependencies
Gathering any necessary certificates, usernames and passwords
Setting up the new MDM solution and configuring it to work with Apple services
Recreating the enrolment profile and all configuration profiles and payloads
Testing the migration on various device types
Beginning an IT-managed, user-based or combo migration
Collect the information you need
Migrating from one MDM solution (regardless of enrolment type) to another often involves certificates, tokens and interaction and integration with other Apple services, such as the Apple Push Notification service (APNs), Apple School Manager and Apple Business Manager. This information should be collected before any devices are migrated.
Involve the teams you need
In some cases, more than one person is involved in managing Apple devices using MDM in your organisation. This may involve the following teams:
Apple service management: Administrators for Apple School Manager or Apple Business Manager and access to the Apple Push Notification service (APNs).
Security: Certificates (including the APNs certificate) and identity configurations.
Network: Wi-Fi credentials, managing the organisation’s firewall.
App dispersement: This may include In-house proprietary apps, Managed Apps, Custom Apps, Unlisted Apps and Content Managers.
User support and documentation: Call centres, help desks and documentation for the staff themselves and for end-users.