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
- Math 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
- Cellular payload settings
- Cellular 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
- Dock 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 settings
- TV Remote payload settings
- Web Clips payload settings
- Web Content Filter payload settings
- Xsan payload settings
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Set up a shared internet connection for iPhone and iPad
To ease Wi-Fi bandwidth constraints for iPhone and iPad devices, an internet sharing feature is available. All you need is an Ethernet connection and a Mac with macOS 10.13 or later. With it you can share the computer’s internet connection to many physically connected devices. On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings > General > Sharing > Content Caching to turn on content caching.
In the Content Caching pane that appears, select the option Internet Connection. In the same pane, you can select specific types of content to cache locally for faster downloads.
Sharing the internet in this manner saves time, local Wi-Fi, and bandwidth when using a cart, Thunderbolt or USB hub, and updating several devices at once, compared with each device updating individually over Wi-Fi. It’s particularly useful for installing many large apps while preparing devices for the beginning of a semester or new school year.
Requirements
The following are required for the shared internet connection service:
The Mac needs to have macOS 10.13 or later installed.
The Mac needs to be connected to the internet using Ethernet.
A Mac laptop needs to be plugged into a power source, because the shared internet connection service prevents it from going to sleep.
How to cache content
Connect the Mac to an Ethernet cable, connect the Mac to a USB hub or a cart, or directly connect your devices, then turn on Content Caching > Share Internet connection. Depending on your internet connection, content caching may take some time.
How Content Caching > Share Internet connection works with a device management service
Your device management service can send a command to your devices to update their operating system and apps with a “requires tethering” option. When the devices are physically connected to the Mac and they request that content from Apple, that content is now cached locally. That content is downloaded by all devices that received the command from your device management service and that are physically connected to the Mac with a cart, Thunderbolt or USB hub.
How Content Caching > Share Internet connection works without a device management service
Because the Content Caching > Share Internet connection feature actually shares the internet connection from the Mac, you can initiate a software request for any app or operating system updates on one of the connected devices.