14. Mobile Device Management Features

In Chapter 13, we talked about some of the advantages that Mobile Device Management has over “traditional” OTA management and configuration profiles, but we didn’t really get any details of what that means.

Flexibility and Power

Flexibility and power—those are the two words that describe the advantages of Mobile Device Management over the other management methods we’ve explored so far.

Mobile Device Management easily excels in flexibility. You can change or remove settings without any user involvement.

Mobile Device Management also excels in power because you can apply its flexibility to one or hundreds of devices at once. Note that with Mobile Device Management, you apply. Using manual profile installation, ...

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