Chapter 7. Adding Profiles to Devices

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You’ve created profiles in every way possible. You have scripts and XML files, along with configuration profiles that fit every possible iOS device and user need. What could possibly be left? Oh, that’s right: actually getting the profile from the iPhone Configuration Utility (iPCU) onto the device. In this chapter, you’ll learn about two methods: tethered installation and email.

This is also the chapter where we’re going to start really looking at Apple’s other tool for managing iOS devices, OS X Server 10.7’s new Profile Manager. Profile Manager is Apple’s first implementation of iOS management techniques ...

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