Deployment Strategies

There are a number of references in the Resources section that offer some suggestions for deploying iOS devices, particularly the iOS 4 Education Deployment Guide. Here are some general ideas to help you develop your workflow of enrolling many iOS devices with your Lion Server Profile Manager.

If you get the chance to have physical access to an iOS device before you distribute it to a member of your organization, consider pre-enrolling the iOS device before distributing it. If you have resources to actually log in as the user and enroll the device as the user, that saves the user time and hassle. But I don’t see this as a realistic option for many organizations, because you need to know all the user passwords in order to ...

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