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   Take Control of OS X Server, Chapter 9: Mobile Device Management

   Charles Edge

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Mobile Device Management

   From the enterprise angle, a significant feature of OS X Server is
   mobile device management or MDM, that is, software and services that
   make it easy for a system administrator to configure numerous
   devices'iPads, iPhones, and even Macs'with consistent settings and
   policies. With MDM, an administrator can manage these devices by
   deploying apps, wiping lost devices, unlocking devices when passcodes
   are forgotten (yes, it happens), and more.

   It may be easy to set up a single iPad as you desire, but setting up 25
   classroom iPads manually with the same settings might cause insanity.
   And you don't even want to contemplate manual configuration of 5,000
   iPads for a large business.

   Profile Manager is an MDM tool built into OS X Server that's designed
   to simplify the task of managing a fleet of Apple devices in a wide
   variety of ways. It works with iOS devices running iOS 5 and higher,
   and with Macs running OS X 10.7 Lion and later.

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