Apple Platform Deployment
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- Intro to Apple platform deployment
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- 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
- Passcode declarative configuration
- Passkey Attestation 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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Contacts MDM payload settings for Apple devices
Use the Contacts payload to provide account settings for connecting to the CardDAV-compliant contact server. This payload is for users of an iPhone, iPad, or Mac enrolled in a mobile device management (MDM) solution. If you omit the account information, users need to enter it manually when the profile is installed.
The Contacts payload supports the following. For more information, see Payload information.
Supported payload identifier: com.apple.carddav.account
Supported operating systems and channels: iOS, iPadOS, Shared iPad user, macOS user, visionOS 1.1.
Supported enrollment methods: User Enrollment, Device Enrollment, Automated Device Enrollment.
Duplicates allowed: True—more than one Contacts payload can be delivered to a user or device.
You can use the settings in the table below with the Contacts payload.
Setting | Description | Required | |||||||||
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Account description | The display name for the account. | No | |||||||||
Hostname | The IP address or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the CardDAV server. | Yes | |||||||||
Port | The port number of the CardDAV server. | Yes | |||||||||
Principal URL | The principal URL for the CardDAV account. | No | |||||||||
Account user name | The user name for the CardDAV account. | Yes | |||||||||
Account password | The password of the CardDAV account. If you leave this field empty, users must enter their password after the payload is installed on the device. | No | |||||||||
Use SSL | When the Use SSL option is selected and the server’s SSL certificate isn’t issued by a trusted certificate authority known to the devices, use the Certificates payload to add any root or intermediate certificates that are necessary to validate the server’s SSL certificate. | No | |||||||||
Communication service rules | You can select a default app to be used when calling contacts from this account. | No | |||||||||
Note: Each MDM vendor implements these settings differently. To learn how various Contacts settings are applied to your devices and users, consult your MDM vendor’s documentation.