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Conguration and management
Overview
You can streamline Apple device deployments through management techniques that simplify
account setup, congure institutional policies, distribute apps, and apply restrictions. You can
congure iOS and OS X preferences and accounts manually, or with an MDM solution. Users
can then do most of the initial setup themselves through the Setup Assistant built into the
Apple devices. And after the devices are congured and enrolled in MDM, they can be managed
wirelessly by your IT department.
MDM gives your organization the ability to securely enroll Apple devices in the corporate or
educational environment, wirelessly congure and update settings, monitor policy compliance,
deploy apps, and remotely wipe or lock them if they’re managed. Several MDM solutions are
available for dierent server platforms. Each solution oers its own management console,
features, and pricing. Before you choose an MDM solution, review this section to see which
features are most important to your organization.
Depending on who owns the Apple devices and how they’re deployed, several dierent
conguration workows and capabilities are possible. For more information, see the Deployment
models Overview.
This section describes the complete set of tools, programs, and services available to support your
Apple device deployment.
Setup Assistant and activation
iOS and OS X provide Setup Assistant to activate each new or erased Apple device, congure
basic settings, and personalize preferences such as language, location services,Siri, iCloud, and
Find My iPhone. Users can take an Apple device right out of the box and use these features to
get up and running, or your organization can perform these basic setup tasks. Setup Assistant
also let users create a personal Apple ID, if they don’t have one already.
Apple devices enrolled in the Device Enrollment Program and managed by MDM can have these
Setup Assistant screens skipped:
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Restore from backup: Doesn’t restore from backup
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Apple ID: Doesn’t prompt the user to sign in with an Apple ID
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Terms and Conditions: Skips the Terms and Conditions
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Send diagnostics: Doesn’t automatically send diagnostic information
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Location (iOS only): Doesn’t enable Location Services
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Touch ID (iOS only): Doesn’t enable Touch ID
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Passcode (iOS only): Skips the passcode setup
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Apple Pay (iOS only): Doesn’t enable Apple Pay
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Siri (iOS only): Doesn’t enable Siri
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