Apple Device Management: A Unified Theory of Managing Macs, Ipads, Iphones, and Appletvs

Working effectively with Apple platforms at a corporate or business level includes not only infrastructure, but a mode of thinking that administrators have to adopt to find success. A mode of thinking that forces you to leave 30 years of IT dogma at the door. This book is a guide through how to integrate Apple products in your environment with a minimum of friction. Because the Apple ecosystem isn't not going anywhere.

You'll start by understanding where Apple, third-party software vendors, and the IT community is taking us. What is Mobile Device Management and how does it work under the hood. By understanding how MDM works, you will understand what needs to happen on your networks in order to allow for MDM, as well as the best way to give the least amount of access to the servers or services that's necessary. You'll then look at management agents that do not include MDM, as well as when you will need to use an agent as opposed to when to use other options. Once you can install a management solution, you can deploy profiles on a device or you can deploy profiles on Macs using scripts.

With Apple Device Management as your guide, you'll customize and package software for deployment and lock down devices so they're completely secure. You'll also work on getting standard QA environments built out, so you can test more effectively with less effort.

Apple is forging their own path in IT. They trade spots with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft as the wealthiest company to ever exist. And they will not be constrained by 30 or more years of dogma in the IT industry. You can try to shoehorn Apple devices into outdated modes of device management, or you can embrace Apple's stance on management with the help of this book.

What You'll Learn

• Deploy profiles across devices effectively and securely
• Install apps remotely both from the app store and through custom solutions
• Work natively with Apple environments rather than retrofitting older IT solutions

Who This Book Is For

Mac administrators within organizations that want to integrate with the current Apple ecosystem, including Windows administrators learning how to use/manage Macs, mobile administrators working with iPhones and iPads, and mobile developers tasked with creating custom apps for internal, corporate distribution.

在企業或商業層面上有效地與蘋果平台合作，不僅僅包括基礎設施，還需要管理者採用一種思維模式來取得成功。這種思維模式迫使你將過去30年的IT教條拋在腦後。本書將指導你如何在你的環境中無縫集成蘋果產品，因為蘋果生態系統不會消失。

你將首先了解蘋果、第三方軟件供應商和IT社區的發展方向。什麼是移動設備管理（MDM）以及它的工作原理。通過了解MDM的工作原理，你將了解在你的網絡中需要發生什麼，以允許MDM，以及提供最少訪問伺服器或服務所需的最佳方法。然後，你將研究不包括MDM的管理代理，以及何時需要使用代理而不是其他選項。一旦你能夠安裝管理解決方案，你就可以在設備上部署配置文件，或者使用腳本在Mac上部署配置文件。

在《蘋果設備管理》的指導下，你將自定義和打包軟件以進行部署，並鎖定設備以確保完全安全。你還將努力建立標準的QA環境，以便以更少的努力進行更有效的測試。

蘋果正在IT領域開拓自己的道路。他們與亞馬遜、谷歌和微軟交替成為有史以來最富有的公司。他們不會受到IT行業30多年教條的限制。你可以試圖將蘋果設備硬塞到過時的設備管理模式中，或者你可以在本書的幫助下接受蘋果對管理的立場。

你將學到什麼：
- 有效且安全地在設備上部署配置文件
- 遠程安裝應用程序，包括從應用商店和通過自定義解決方案
- 與蘋果環境原生工作，而不是適應舊的IT解決方案

本書適合對接入當前蘋果生態系統感興趣的組織內的Mac管理員，包括學習如何使用/管理Mac的Windows管理員，與iPhone和iPad一起工作的移動管理員，以及負責為內部企業分發創建自定義應用程序的移動開發人員。

Charles Edge is the Director of the Marketplace at Jamf. He holds 30 years of experience as a developer, administrator, network architect, product manager and CTO. He is the author of 20 books and more than 6,000 blog posts on technology, and has served as an editor and author for many publications. Charles also serves on the board of multiple companies and conferences, and frequently speaks at industry conferences around the world, including DefCon, BlackHat, LinuxWorld, the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, and a number of Apple-focused conferences. Charles is also the author of krypted.com and a cohost of the MacAdmins Podcast.

Rich Trouton has been doing Macintosh system and server administration for twenty years and has supported Macs in a number of different environments, including university, government, medical research, advertising and enterprise software development. His current position is at SAP, where he works with the rest of the Apple CoE team to support SAP's Apple community.

Charles Edge 是 Jamf 的市場部主管。他擁有30年的開發人員、管理員、網路架構師、產品經理和首席技術官的經驗。他是20本書的作者，並在技術方面撰寫了超過6,000篇博客文章，並擔任多個出版物的編輯和作者。Charles還擔任多家公司和會議的董事會成員，並經常在世界各地的行業會議上發表演講，包括DefCon、BlackHat、LinuxWorld、蘋果全球開發者大會和一些蘋果專注的會議。Charles還是krypted.com的作者和MacAdmins Podcast的聯合主持人。

Rich Trouton 在過去20年中一直從事著Macintosh系統和伺服器管理工作，並在多個不同的環境中支援Mac，包括大學、政府、醫學研究、廣告和企業軟體開發。他目前在SAP工作，與Apple CoE團隊合作支援SAP的蘋果社群。