Apple Platform Deployment

• Welcome
• Intro to Apple Platform Deployment
• What’s New for IT at WWDC26
  • Intro to What’s New for IT at WWDC26
  • Apple services updates
  • Device management updates
  • App management updates
  • Identity integration updates
  • Education-specific updates
• Plan the deployment
  • Intro to device management
    • Declarative device management
      • Intro to declarative device management
      • Use declarative device management to manage Apple devices
    • Device management
      • Intro to device management profiles
      • Intro to device management payloads
    • About device supervision
  • Choose a deployment model
  • Device enrollment methods
    • Enrollment methods for Apple devices
    • Account-driven enrollment methods
    • User Enrollment and device management
    • Device Enrollment and device management
    • Automated Device Enrollment and device management
  • Deploy Apple TV
  • Deploy Apple Vision Pro
  • Deploy Apple Watch
  • Deploy shared devices
    • Shared device overview
    • Use Return to Service for Apple devices
    • Deploy Shared iPad
      • Shared iPad overview
      • Prepare Shared iPad
  • Choose a device management service
  • Device management migration
    • Plan your device management migration
    • Configure your new device management service
    • Migrate managed devices
  • Back up and restore managed devices
  • Use standards-based services
• Prepare your environment
  • Deploy devices with Apple School Manager or Apple Business
  • Use Apple Configurator
    • Configure devices
    • Install apps with Apple Configurator
    • Add Apple devices to Apple School Manager or Apple Business
  • Configure your network for device management
  • Configure devices to work with APNs
  • Configure devices with cellular connections
    • Prepare to use eSIMs with Apple devices
    • Use a device management service to deploy devices with cellular connections
    • Support for private 5G and LTE networks
    • Support for 5G Network Slicing
  • Prepare your Wi-Fi networks
    • Optimize your Wi-Fi networks
    • Review aggregate throughput for Wi-Fi networks
  • Speed up downloads
    • Intro to content caching
    • Set up content caching
    • Use DNS TXT records
    • Advanced content caching settings
    • Content caching from the command line
    • Content caching metrics
    • Set up a shared internet connection
• Use identity services
  • Intro to Apple identity services
  • Extensible Single Sign-on on Apple devices
    • Intro to Single Sign-on
    • Enrollment SSO for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro
    • Platform SSO for macOS
    • Kerberos SSO extension
  • Integrate Apple devices with Microsoft services
    • Integrate with Microsoft Entra ID
    • Integrate with Microsoft Exchange
    • Use Microsoft Exchange to identify an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Vision Pro
    • Integrate Mac computers with Active Directory
• About Managed Apple Accounts
  • About Managed Apple Accounts
  • iCloud for Managed Apple Accounts
• Review the setup process
  • Manage Setup Assistant
  • Managed Migration Assistant for macOS
  • Set up local macOS accounts
• Device management configuration options
  • Review declarative configurations
  • Plan your configuration profiles
  • Review device management payloads
  • Review device management restrictions
• Manage software updates
  • About software updates
  • Software update process
  • Install and enforce software updates
  • Test software updates with the AppleSeed for IT beta program
• Distribute content
  • Intro to content distribution
  • Content distribution methods
  • Distribute apps
    • Distribute managed apps
    • Distribute Custom Apps
    • Distribute unlisted apps
    • Distribute proprietary in-house apps
    • Distribute packages to Mac computers
    • Get app bundle IDs
      • Bundle IDs for iPhone and iPad Apple apps
      • Bundle IDs for Apple TV Apple apps
      • Get the bundle ID for a Mac app
  • Manage organizational data
  • Manage login items and background tasks on Mac
• Integrate with networks
  • How Apple devices join Wi-Fi networks
  • Connect to 802.1X networks
  • Wi-Fi roaming support
  • Cisco network enhancements
  • Wi-Fi and Ethernet specifications for Apple devices