Chapter 15. Setting Up a Mobile Device Management Server

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In this chapter, I talk about setting up a Mobile Device Management server. Because of the differences between doing this for OS X 10.6 Server and OS X Server 10.7, I’ll split this chapter along those lines. For OS X 10.6 Server and earlier, I’ll be using Casper. For OS X Server 10.7, I’ll use Apple’s Profile Manager.

But first let’s talk a bit about what you need to think about and plan before you start downloading and installing things.

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