Drew Smith 
Apple macOS and iOS System Administration 
Integrating and Supporting iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks

Effectively manage Apple devices anywhere from a handful of Macs at one location to thousands of i Phones across many locations. This book is a comprehensive guide for supporting Mac and i OS devices in organizations of all sizes.





You’ll learn how to control a fleet of mac OS clients using tools like Profile Manager, Apple Device Enrollment Program (DEP), and Apple Remote Desktop. Then integrate your Mac clients into your existing Microsoft solutions for file sharing, print sharing, Exchange, and Active Directory authentication without having to deploy additional Mac-specific middle-ware or syncing between multiple directory services.  






Apple mac OS and i OS System Administration shows how to automate the software installation and upgrade process using the open source Munki platform and provides a scripted out-of-the box experience for large scale deployments of mac OS endpoints in any organization. Finally, you’ll see how to provision and manage thousands of i OS devices in a standardized and secure fashion with device restrictions and over-the-air configuration.  






What You’ll Learn

• Integrate mac OS and i OS clients into enterprise Microsoft environments


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  Use Apple’s Volume Purchase Program to manage App installations and share pools of Apps across multiple users
  


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  Mass deploy i OS devices with standard configurations
  


• Remotely manage a fleet of mac OS devices using Apple’s Remote Desktop

Who This Book Is For






System or desktop administrators in enterprise organizations who need to integrate mac OS or i OS clients into their existing IT infrastructure or set-up a new infrastructure for an Apple environment from scratch.

Tabella dei contenuti

Chapter 1: Introduction to Apple platforms.- Chapter 2: mac OS Client Administration.- Chapter 3: mac OS Security.- Chapter 4: i OS Client Administration.- Chapter 5: Managing Devices with Apple Configurator.- Chapter 6: Managing i OS Clients with Apple Remote Desktop.- Chapter 7: mac OS Server.- Chapter 8: Mobile Device Management.- Chapter 9: Profile Manager.- Chapter 10: mac OS Application Deployment with Munki.- Chapter 11: Microsoft Integration.- Chapter 12: Mass Provisioning of i OS Devices.- Chapter 13: Scripted Deployment of mac OS Clients.

Circa l’autore

Drew Smith has spent the last twenty years in system administration, providing technology support and designing solutions across the United States. He has been responsible for fleets as large as 6, 000 mac OS devices across 52 different locations. In 2012, he deployed over 30, 000 i Pads to higher-education students in 15 different states, at the time it was one of the largest i Pad 1:1 deployments. Drew enjoys sharing best practices with others to help them simplify and streamline the management of Apple devices in multi-platform environments.