Chapter 9. Mass-Deploying Devices

At this point, you have spent a large part of the book learning how to perform tasks on iOS-based devices, interconnect those devices to other systems, and even perform a little light software development. In Chapter 8, you created a profile by using the iPhone Configuration Utility. In this chapter, you will take those profiles and deploy them to actual mobile devices, allowing for your initial pilot and/or deployment to occur.

As shown in Chapter 8, you can deploy profiles to mobile devices in smaller environments by using the iPhone Configuration Utility. However, that strategy can be somewhat difficult for larger environments. In mass deployments, you want to keep the number of times you need to "touch" a device ...

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