Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple Platform Deployment
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- Declarative status reports
- Declarative app configuration
- Authentication credentials and identity asset declaration
- Background task management declarative
- Calendar declarative configuration
- Certificates declarative configuration
- Contacts declarative configuration
- Exchange declarative configuration
- Google Accounts declarative configuration
- LDAP declarative configuration
- Legacy interactive profile declarative configuration
- Legacy profile declarative configuration
- Mail declarative configuration
- Maths and Calculator app declarative configuration
- Managed Migration Assistant declarative configuration
- Passcode declarative configuration
- Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
- Safari browsing management declarative configuration
- Safari extensions management declarative configuration
- Screen Sharing declarative configuration
- Service configuration files declarative configuration
- Software Update declarative configuration
- Software Update settings declarative configuration
- Storage management declarative configuration
- Subscribed Calendars declarative configuration
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- Accessibility payload settings
- Active Directory Certificate payload settings
- AirPlay payload settings
- AirPlay Security payload settings
- AirPrint payload settings
- App Lock payload settings
- Associated Domains payload settings
- Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) payload settings
- Autonomous Single App Mode payload settings
- Calendar payload settings
- Mobile payload settings
- Mobile Private Network payload settings
- Certificate Preference payload settings
- Certificate Revocation payload settings
- Certificate Transparency payload settings
- Certificates payload settings
- Conference Room Display payload settings
- Contacts payload settings
- Content Caching payload settings
- Directory Service payload settings
- DNS Proxy payload settings
- DNS Settings payload settings
- Fonts payload settings
- Domains payload settings
- Energy Saver payload settings
- Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) payload settings
- Exchange Web Services (EWS) payload settings
- Extensible Single Sign-on payload settings
- Extensible Single Sign-on Kerberos payload settings
- Extensions payload settings
- FileVault payload settings
- Finder payload settings
- Firewall payload settings
- Fonts payload settings
- Global HTTP Proxy payload settings
- Google Accounts payload settings
- Home Screen Layout payload settings
- Identification payload settings
- Identity Preference payload settings
- Kernel Extension Policy payload settings
- LDAP payload settings
- Lights Out Management payload settings
- Lock Screen Message payload settings
- Login Window payload settings
- Managed Login Items payload settings
- Mail payload settings
- Network Usage Rules payload settings
- Notifications payload settings
- Parental Controls payload settings
- Passcode payload settings
- Printing payload settings
- Privacy Preferences Policy Control payload settings
- Relay payload settings
- SCEP payload settings
- Security payload settings
- Setup Assistant payload settings
- Single Sign-on payload settings
- Smart Card payload settings
- Subscribed Calendars payload settings
- System Extensions payload settings
- System Migration payload settings
- Time Machine payload specifics
- TV Remote payload settings
- Web Clips payload settings
- Web Content Filter payload settings
- LDAP payload settings
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Service configuration files declarative configuration for Apple devices
Use the Service configuration files configuration to provide managed settings for common system services in a robust and tamper-resistant way. When the configuration is activated, the archive is downloaded and expanded into a special tamper-proof, service-specific location. The service-specific location can be found by calling a function in a public library, so that any service can adopt managed service configuration files. The following built-in services are modified to look for the managed service configuration files, which take precedence over built-in settings:
sshdsudoPAMCUPSApachezsh (/private/etc/zprofile)bash (/private/etc/profile)
The Service configuration files configuration supports the following:
Minimum supported operating system versions and channels: macOS 14 device.
Requires supervision: Yes.
Supported enrolment methods: Device Enrolment, Automated Device Enrolment.
Setting | Description | Required |
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Declarative Key: String: ServiceType, Data Asset Reference | The identifier of the system service the managed configuration files are related to. Use a reverse DNS style for this identifier. | Yes |
Declarative Key: String: DataAssetReference, Service Type | An asset declaration that contains the service configuration files. The files need to be distributed as a .zip archive of a directory that can contain one or many files and that should mirror the layout of the directory it replaces. | Yes |
Note: Each device management service developer implements these settings differently. To learn how various Service configuration files’ settings are applied to your devices and users, consult your developer’s device management service documentation.