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- Sprache: Englisch
The Apple configurator is an incredible piece of software which grants full control in mobile device management, but on a larger scale. The popularity of people taking their own devices to work has grown tremendously. However, valued professional and personal information is at risk, through loss, theft, or hacking.
Instant Apple Configurator How-to is a hands-on guide that eliminates any worries that are associated with the deployment and security of iOS devices. This book provides practical, quick win solutions to combat these issues, with clear, concise, and informative examples providing solutions to secure, remote wipe, and encrypt devices. The book will further explore how to personalize iOS devices for configuration and deployment.
With the Instant Apple Configurator How-to, learn to build profiles with customised control settings, with examples on how to capture device information and use console logs for added protection. You will become skilled at tracking and installing provisional profiles for greater security. We will also explore developing workflows for successful deployment, installing software and applications whilst managing files on iOS devices, and how to deploy enrolment profiles for mobile device management solutions en masse. If you are looking for a complete guide that provides simple solutions to complex problems, look no further.
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Instant Apple Configurator How-to
Instant Apple Configurator How-to
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First published: March 2013
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Credits
Authors
Charles Edge
TJ Houston
Reviewer
Allister Banks
Acquisition Editor
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Technical Editor
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About the Authors
Charles Edge is the Chief Technology Officer of 318 Inc, a national, Mac-first consultancy based in Santa Monica, California. Here he manages a team of elite systems administrators who enjoy improving technology as much as they enjoy figuring out the weird things people do to computers. Charles has been involved with opening 318 offices around the United States, including a presence in New York, Nashville, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Portland. He speaks at a number of conferences. His first speaking appearance at a large conference was DefCon 2004. Since then he has spoken at conferences such as MacSysAdmin, MacWorld, LinuxWorld, and BlackHat. He is also the author of krypted.com, a site dedicated to heterogeneous networking and Apple systems administration.
He has authored several books including:
TJ Houston is the Director of Technology for Huron City Schools and has worked with educators for over 5 years. A significant amount of this time has been focused on:
TJ has a degree in Business with a focus on IT. He is an author, blogger, podcaster, photographer, and trainer. He is passionate about helping educators and administrators learn about 21st century education as well as sharing resources that further the educational process.
I would like to thank my family, Donna, Tim, and Megan for always supporting everything I do. I also want to thank my fiancée Ashley for the support and help throughout this project.
About the Reviewer
Allister Banks is excitable, knows enough Japanese to order food, and lives with his wife in NYC. Professionally, he is a Solutions Architect for 318 in downtown NYC (and elsewhere) and maintains the InstaDMG project.
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Preface
Apple Configurator is a great tool from Apple, meant to help in automating the setup and management of iOS devices for a number of environments. Although Apple Configurator is, as with most things from Apple, easy to use, it is a different way of managing devices. This book is meant to guide you through getting used to using Apple Configurator so that you can get devices in your users' hands quickly and effectively with the user experience you always knew you could give them.
What this book covers
Signing up for an Apple ID (Must know) shows how to appropriately use Apple Configurator. For this, administrators need an Apple ID. An Apple ID is the same kind of account used to purchase music through iTunes, use iCloud to send images to photo stream, and log in to the Apple developer portal. The Apple ID is critical if any applications are to be imported into Apple Configurator as well as in order to download the tool from the Mac App Store in the first place.
Installing Apple Configurator (Must know) explains how to download and install Apple Configurator. Apple Configurator is a free tool that can only be downloaded via the Mac App Store. Once downloaded, it can be distributed to as many machines as needed.
Configuring the Apple Configurator preferences (Should know) walks you through the preference panes for Apple Configurator, including the ability to set lock screen images, show usernames on locked devices, and set notification sounds.
Migrating existing profiles into Apple Configurator (Should know) explains that iPhone Configuration Utility was the first tool available for managing iOS devices. Many environments have already built complicated workflows leveraging profiles from iPhone Configuration Utility. In this recipe, we look at migrating those profiles from iPhone Configuration Utility and into Apple Configurator, so you don't have to redo all the hard work put into the old way of doing things.
Deciding whether to prepare, supervise, or assign (Must know) shows us a number of ways to use Apple Configurator. If we compare the Prepare and Supervise modes, we see that it's all about the paid apps. If you don't need to distribute apps, supervise. The Assign mode is used when it's all about the documents in the apps, if you don't need to distribute content.
Creating a cart workflow (Should know) covers some of the topics that should be looked at once Apple Configurator has been installed and you've had a chance to play with it.
Leveraging Configurator in a one-to-one environment (Should know) shows how many schools are moving to a model where every child has a device. This is similar to how companies have done IT for decades. If these are iOS devices, Apple Configurator will play some role in their setup.
Checking out devices (Should know) explains the workflow in which iOS devices are checked out from a central point to many different users.
Creating a device backup (Should know) tells us that the most basic feature for anyone working on a large deployment (which can be anywhere from 10 to 100,000 devices) needs to master is how to take a device in a given state and replicate that state exactly as the device was onto another device. This is usually referred to as imaging. In an iOS world, we call it backup and restore and can use iTunes or Apple Configurator for the task. The first step is to create a device backup.
Restoring a device backup (Should know) explains that once administrators have a good backup of a device, it's time to restore that backup onto another device. In fact, the backup can be restored to up to 30 devices concurrently.
Understanding profiles (Become an expert)
