Profile Manager lets you specify how apps and books are distributed, how clients are configured, how to administer devices, and how to deliver the configurations to users and devices.
Before you can use Profile Manager, click the On button in the Server app’s Profile Manager pane, then do any of the following:
To get to the administration portal, follow the Open Profile Manager link in the Server app’s Profile Manager pane.
The administration portal is a website where you manage app assignments, configure settings for devices, manage enrolled devices and device groups, manage users and user groups, and execute or monitor tasks on enrolled devices.
To specify settings and assign them to users, devices, and groups, and to manage enrolled devices, click Open Profile Manager.
When Profile Manager opens in your web browser, log in with your administrator name and password.
To enable the self-service user portal, click Configure next to Device Management.
If you’re prompted to enable Open Directory, complete the setup assistant.
The user portal is a secure website for distributing settings you define using the administration portal. Users connect to the portal using their devices. Then, after users log in, the settings that you assigned to them are available for download and installation. Users also use this site to enroll devices for mobile device management, if you’re using Profile Manager as a mobile device management service.
To enable remote device configuration and push configuration profiles, click Configure next to Device Management, then make sure the devices are enrolled using the self-service user portal.
After a device is enrolled, you can update its configuration over the network without user interaction and perform other tasks. For information about how users interact with Profile Manager, click Open Profile Manager, then choose Help from the User menu.
To assign apps and books purchased through the Volume Purchase Program (VPP), select “Assign apps and books from the Volume Purchase Program.”
Profile Manager can distribute iOS in-house enterprise apps and apps and books purchased through the VPP.
For information about how to assign apps and books purchased through the VPP to users or groups, click Open Profile Manager, then choose Help from the User menu.
To sign profiles using a certificate, select “Sign configuration profiles,” then choose a certificate from the Certificates pop-up menu.
If the certificate isn’t available in the menu, choose Import from the Certificates pop-up menu and import a certificate.
To include configurations for services on your server in your default configuration profile, select “Include configuration for services.”
You can change the name of the configuration profile by clicking the Edit button next to Name.