Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple platform deployment
- What’s new
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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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VPN settings overview for Apple devices
You can configure VPN settings for an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV enrolled in a mobile device management (MDM) solution. Use the VPN payload to enter the VPN settings for connecting to your network. Settings you specify in the configuration profile can’t be modified by users. Some VPN and Wi-Fi settings, such as 802.1X parameters, can be set only by a configuration profile.
Note: An identity is required for some VPN configurations. Depending on the VPN configuration, a VPN payload may require that the associated Certificates payload contain the certificate associated with the identity.
The VPN payload supports the following. For more information, see Payload information. To see a list of VPN variables, see Variables settings for MDM payloads for Apple devices.
Supported payload identifier: com.apple.vpn.managed
Supported operating systems and channels: iOS, iPadOS, macOS device, macOS user, tvOS, visionOS 1.1.
Supported enrollment methods: User Enrollment (App-Layer VPN and App-to-App Layer VPN mapping only), Device Enrollment, Automated Device Enrollment.
Duplicates allowed: True—more than one VPN payload can be delivered to a user or device.
You can use the settings in the table below with the VPN payload.
Setting | Description | Required | |||||||||
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Configure the VPN connection to use Internet Key Exchange, version 2 (IKEv2). | No | ||||||||||
Configure the VPN connection to use Internet Protocol Security (IPsec). | No | ||||||||||
Configure the VPN connection to use Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP). | No | ||||||||||
Third-party connection type | The third-party types of VPN connection. The options are:
Users must install both the configuration profile and the appropriate authentication app. Some third-party VPN apps are available from the App Store. | No | |||||||||
Custom VPN connection type | For other custom VPN solutions, contact your vendor and ask if they have an app in the App Store. If they do, specify the bundle identifier of the app. Make sure the Identifier field matches the identifier specified by your vendor’s VPN app and is in reverse DNS format (for example, com.betterbag.myvpn). Your users must install both the vendor’s app and the configuration profile to connect to your network. | No | |||||||||
Note: Each MDM vendor implements these settings differently. To learn how VPN settings are applied to your devices and users, consult your MDM vendor’s documentation.