Lesson 5. Configuration and Profiles

Goals

→ Understand managing with profiles

→ Configure and enable Profile Manager

→ Create and manually install profiles

Profiles will serve as a fundamental part of your Apple management plans. Simply, the more configuration you can accomplish via profiles, the less manual setup you will have to complete. With every new release of iOS and OS X, Apple includes greater functionality for managing with profiles. At this point, literally hundreds of different settings and restrictions can be managed via profiles.

This lesson serves as an introduction to the profile architecture and to the Profile Manager service in OS X Server. Although Profile Manager appears as a single service in the Server app, its complexity ...

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