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Learn from two of the most prolific voices in Apple enterprise deployment and development
Manage devices en masse along the current sea change implemented by Apple
Keep costs down and future-proof large deployments
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
- 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
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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Minneapolis, USA
Charles Edge
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Middletown, USA
Rich Trouton
About the authors
Charles Edge is the Director of the Marketplace at Jamf. He holds 30 years of experience as a developer, administrator, network architect, product manager and CTO. He is the author of 20 books and more than 6,000 blog posts on technology, and has served as an editor and author for many publications. Charles also serves on the board of multiple companies and conferences, and frequently speaks at industry conferences around the world, including DefCon, BlackHat, LinuxWorld, the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, and a number of Apple-focused conferences. Charles is also the author of krypted.com and a cohost of the MacAdmins Podcast.
Rich Trouton has been doing Macintosh system and server administration for 20+ years and has supported Macs in a number of different environments, including university, government, medical research, advertising and enterprise software development. His current position is at SAP, where he works with the rest of the Apple CoE team to support SAP's Apple community.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Apple Device Management
Book Subtitle: A Unified Theory of Managing Macs, iPads, iPhones, and Apple TVs
Authors: Charles Edge, Rich Trouton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9156-6
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Charles Edge and Rich Trouton 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-9155-9Published: 22 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-9156-6Published: 21 February 2023
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIV, 829
Number of Illustrations: 352 b/w illustrations
Topics: Apple and iOS
Industry Sectors: Electronics