Lesson 12. Develop a Management Plan

Goals

→ Define requirements for your organization’s deployment

→ Consider third-party management solutions

→ Develop a management plan

Planning is the most important step in your Apple deployment process; judicious planning always pays off later. The primary goal of system administration, after all, is to efficiently maintain a computing environment that meets an organization’s requirements and its users’ needs. The amount of time you dedicate to planning will no doubt be less than the amount of time you’ll spend fixing a problem that has been replicated on all your Apple devices.

As you’ve seen in this guide, many management technologies and techniques are available, and plans are as varied as the organizations ...

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