Episode 241: Grand Unified Apple Platform Deployment Theory

Kevin M. White rejoins the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about Apple’s Fall 2021 Platform Deployment Guide.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777
- Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom, Apple Systems Architect, CompNow – @marcusransom
Guests:
- Kevin M. White, Instigator at Macjutsu
Links
- Apple Platform Deployment
- Security Certifications and Compliance Center
- Apple Platform Security
- Education Deployment Guide
- Apple Device Management
- What’s New in Apple Platform Deployment
- Apple Web Resources
- Apple device enrollment types and MDM
- Review MDM payloads for Apple devices
- Review MDM restrictions for Apple devices
- Manage software updates for Apple devices
- View content caching metrics on Mac
- Intro to content distribution for Apple devices
- Activation lock on Apple Devices
- Use secure token, bootstrap token, and volume ownership in deployments
- Wipe Apple devices remotely
- iPhone Wi-Fi specification details
- Filter content for Apple devices
- Discover Authentication Servers
- Account-Driven User Enrollment for Personally Owned Mobile Devices
- Use Custom Email Domain with iCloud Mail
- The Thinnest Apple Device Yet: Polishing Cloth Teardown
- Core ML
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