

Many apps and services, both free and paid for, rely on your end user having an Apple ID to authenticate their identity in the App Store and other areas. You can enrol your company in DEP at .īefore rolling out an MDM solution for Apple devices, you'll need to make a decision about your Apple ID policy.
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Apple will assign your MDM server a unique token, and when a device connects to it for the first time, DEP will push the correct MDM profile to the device as part of the initial startup process, so your end users can't use their new devices without enrolling them in your MDM service, and no one from IT has to be on hand to oversee registration it's all done automatically.

Put broadly, your create MDM profiles for different types of device and user, then share them with Apple's servers. It is not an MDM solution in and of itself, but it does make a 'zero touch' MDM deployment possible for all new devices, drastically reducing the time and effort involved in setting up new users. One of Apple's latest initiatives, the DEP is designed to make it easier for you to enrol new devices on your company's MDM system, and reduce the chance of any user accessing the network on an unsecured device. Happily, Apple and a range of third parties are working together to make the situation manageable.

And as the Mac user base grows, viruses are becoming increasingly targeted at the platform, making policy compliance and disk encryption incredibly important for mobile devices and desktops alike. While the rise of Apple devices and BYOD/mixed platform environments can be great for productivity and end user satisfaction, it can be a cause for concern among IT admins, particularly as Apple have retired their server hardware, prompting a widespread move to managing Mac computers using Windows servers. Here, we talk through some of the techniques and tools you can use to make sure all your Mac and iOS devices are managed and visible, without overburdening IT admin. With the rise of OS X and iOS devices in business, finding a way to manage these devices and ensure they're in line with company policies is more important than ever especially if you need your Mac users to work in harmony with a PC-based workforce.
