Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple platform deployment
- What’s new
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- Declarative status reports
- Declarative app configuration
- Authentication credentials and identity asset declaration
- Background task management declarative
- Calendar declarative configuration
- Certificates declarative configuration
- Contacts declarative configuration
- Exchange declarative configuration
- Google Accounts declarative configuration
- LDAP declarative configuration
- Legacy interactive profile declarative configuration
- Legacy profile declarative configuration
- Mail declarative configuration
- Math and Calculator app declarative configuration
- Passcode declarative configuration
- Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
- Safari extensions management declarative configuration
- Screen Sharing declarative configuration
- Service configuration files declarative configuration
- Software Update declarative configuration
- Software Update settings declarative configuration
- Storage management declarative configuration
- Subscribed Calendars declarative configuration
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- Accessibility payload settings
- Active Directory Certificate payload settings
- AirPlay payload settings
- AirPlay Security payload settings
- AirPrint payload settings
- App Lock payload settings
- Associated Domains payload settings
- Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) payload settings
- Autonomous Single App Mode payload settings
- Calendar payload settings
- Cellular payload settings
- Cellular Private Network payload settings
- Certificate Preference payload settings
- Certificate Revocation payload settings
- Certificate Transparency payload settings
- Certificates payload settings
- Conference Room Display payload settings
- Contacts payload settings
- Content Caching payload settings
- Directory Service payload settings
- DNS Proxy payload settings
- DNS Settings payload settings
- Dock payload settings
- Domains payload settings
- Energy Saver payload settings
- Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) payload settings
- Exchange Web Services (EWS) payload settings
- Extensible Single Sign-on payload settings
- Extensible Single Sign-on Kerberos payload settings
- Extensions payload settings
- FileVault payload settings
- Finder payload settings
- Firewall payload settings
- Fonts payload settings
- Global HTTP Proxy payload settings
- Google Accounts payload settings
- Home Screen Layout payload settings
- Identification payload settings
- Identity Preference payload settings
- Kernel Extension Policy payload settings
- LDAP payload settings
- Lights Out Management payload settings
- Lock Screen Message payload settings
- Login Window payload settings
- Managed Login Items payload settings
- Mail payload settings
- Network Usage Rules payload settings
- Notifications payload settings
- Parental Controls payload settings
- Passcode payload settings
- Printing payload settings
- Privacy Preferences Policy Control payload settings
- Relay payload settings
- SCEP payload settings
- Security payload settings
- Setup Assistant payload settings
- Single Sign-on payload settings
- Smart Card payload settings
- Subscribed Calendars payload settings
- System Extensions payload settings
- System Migration payload settings
- Time Machine payload settings
- TV Remote payload settings
- Web Clips payload settings
- Web Content Filter payload settings
- Xsan payload settings
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Plan your device management migration
A device management service is an essential component to remotely manage and secure Apple devices. Organization-owned devices can automatically enroll in a device management service as part of the Setup Assistant process after unboxing the device, powering it on, and connecting it to a network. The current reenrollment of organization-owned devices in another device management service requires a full erase of the device or a complex manual process.
Organizations may have a need to reenroll devices in a device management service for many reasons, such as:
Moving from an on-premises to a cloud-based device management service.
Moving devices into a single device management service when acquiring another company.
Migrating from one device management service to one from a different developer.
Migration stages
Migration includes the following stages:
Documenting the current device management service environment and its dependencies
Gathering any necessary certificates, user names, and passwords
Setting up the new device management service and configuring it to work with Apple services
Re-creating the enrollment profile and all configuration profiles and payloads
Testing the migration on various device types
Beginning an IT-managed, user-based, or combo migration
Collect the information you need
Migrating from one device management service (regardless of enrollment method) to another often involves certificates, tokens, and interaction and integration with other Apple services, such as the Apple Push Notification service (APNs), Apple School Manager, and Apple Business Manager. Be sure to collect this information before you migrate any devices.
Involve the teams you need
In some cases, more than one person participates in managing Apple devices using the device management service in your organization. This may involve the following teams:
Apple service management: Administrators for Apple School Manager or Apple Business Manager and access to the Apple Push Notification service (APNs).
Security: Certificates (including the APNs certificate) and identity configurations.
Network: Wi-Fi credentials, managing the organization’s firewall.
App dispersement: This may include In-house proprietary apps, Managed Apps, Custom Apps, Unlisted Apps, and Content Managers.
User support and documentation: Call centers, help desks, and documentation for the staff itself and for end users.