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D. SmithApple macOS and iOS System Administrationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5820-0_9

9. Profile Manager

Drew Smith1 
(1)
Cincinnati, OH, USA
 

While it is not mentioned much in Apple’s marketing materials, they do offer their own first-party Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution. Profile Manager is a service that is included with the macOS Server product. For small- to medium-sized macOS and iOS deployments, it does the job well enough that your organization may not need to purchase their own third-party MDM. Regardless of the choice of MDM, the concepts are universal, and we will be using Profile Manager in this chapter to explain the basic functions that are found in all commercial MDM solutions.

Introduction to Profile ...

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