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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Background task management declarative configuration for Apple devices
macOS includes support for background tasks that either start on behalf of the user or run as a standalone process to provide persistent services in the background.
In macOS 15 or later, executables, scripts, and launchd configuration files can be installed using MDM and are stored in a secure and tamper-resistant location (similar to service configuration files introduced last year), providing an easy way for organizations to deploy and control managed services.
The background task management configuration supports the following:
Minimum supported operating system versions and channels: macOS 15 device.
Requires supervision: Yes.
Supported enrollment methods: Device Enrollment, Automated Device Enrollment.
Setting | Description | Required | |||||||||
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Task Type | The unique identifier of the set of background tasks managed with this configuration. This should be a reverse DNS style identifier. This is used solely by the management system to differentiate between tasks in different configurations. | Yes | |||||||||
Task Description | A description of the set of background tasks managed by this configuration. | No | |||||||||
Executable Asset Reference | Specifies the identifier of an asset declaration containing a reference to the files to be used for the background task configuration. The corresponding asset must be of type This file should contain background task executables, scripts, and configuration files, but not the launchd configuration files. | No | |||||||||
Launchd Configurations | An array of launchd configuration files used to run the background tasks. | No | |||||||||
Note: Each MDM vendor implements these settings differently. To learn how various background task management settings are applied to your users, consult your MDM vendor’s documentation.