Hi, All
This is what I have found. But the interesting part is that I have not set it up for School or businesses using my personal Apple ID.
Intro to mobile device management profiles
iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS have a built-in framework that supports mobile device management (MDM). MDM lets you securely and wirelessly configure devices by sending profiles and commands to the device, whether they’re owned by the user or your organization. MDM capabilities include updating software and device settings, monitoring compliance with organizational policies, and remotely wiping or locking devices. Users can enroll their own devices in MDM, and organization-owned devices can be enrolled in MDM automatically using Apple School Manager or Apple Business Manager. If you’re using Apple Business Essentials, you can also use the device management that’s built right in.
There are a few concepts to understand if you’re going to use MDM, so read the following sections to understand how MDM uses enrollment and configuration profiles, supervision, and payloads.
How devices enroll
Enrollment in MDM involves enrolling client certificate identities using protocols such as Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME), or Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP). Devices use these protocols to create unique identity certificates for authenticating an organization’s services.
Unless enrollment is automated, users decide whether or not to enroll in MDM, and they can disassociate their devices from MDM at any time. Therefore, you want to consider incentives for users to remain managed. For example, you can require MDM enrollment for Wi-Fi network access by using MDM to automatically provide the wireless credentials. When a user leaves MDM, their device attempts to notify the MDM solution that it can no longer be managed.
For devices your organization owns, you can use Apple School Manager, Apple Business Manager, or Apple Business Essentials to automatically enroll them in MDM and supervise them wirelessly during initial setup; this enrollment process is known as Automated Device Enrollment.
Declarative device management
Declarative device management is an update to the existing protocol for device management that can be used in combination with the existing MDM protocol capabilities. It allows the device to asynchronously apply settings and report status back to the MDM solution without constant polling.
Status reporting allows a device to share information about its current state and if there are any changes, these can be reported to the server proactively without having to poll the device for updates. In addition to device properties, status is now reported for passcode presence and compliance, accounts, and MDM app installation progress and information.
Declarations
There are four types of declarations, which are payloads that the server defines, sends to devices, and represents the policy an organization wants to enforce on devices.
Declaration type
Description
Configurations
Configurations are similar to MDM’s existing profile payloads; for example, accounts, and settings, and restrictions. See Declarative configurations in the MDM settings section.
Assets
Assets consist of reference data that’s required by configurations for large data items and per-user data; assets have a one-to-many relationship with configurations. See Authentication credentials and identity asset settings.
Activations
Activations are a set of configurations that are applied atomically to the device and can include predicates, such as “device type is iPad” or “operating system version greater than iPadOS 16.1.” There is a many-to-many relationship between activations and configurations. Activations can use an extended predicate syntax—including status items—to support complex predicate expressions.
In addition, a management properties declaration allows servers to set arbitrary properties on the device, which can be directly used in activation predicates.
Management
Management is used to convey overall management state to the device, describing details about the organization and capabilities of the MDM solution.
Status channel
The status channel is a new channel of communication where the device proactively updates the server with new information about itself. Updates of the device state are sent in a status report to the server. The server can subscribe to specific status items, so it receives only updates for the changes it cares about. Status items can also be used as expressions in activation predicates, allowing the device to operate independently, based on state changes. For more information, see Declarative status reports.
