In this comprehensive advanced course, you will gain the knowledge necessary to support Lion Mobile Applications and Mass iOS Device Deployment. You will cover everything needed to successfully create and manage security certificates, and how to deploy and maintain iOS Mobile devices in a highly scalable fashion. You will be able to demonstrate your new knowledge though labs specifically designed to enhance your learning experience. This course provides you with the knowledge required to support a Mobile iOS enterprise deployment in an OS X Lion server environment.

What You'll Learn

• Support a Mobile iOS enterprise deployment in an OS X Lion server environment

Who Needs to Attend

Help-desk specialists, technical coordinators, and entry-level system administrators who implement and maintain networks using Mac OS X Server

Prerequisites

• Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.7 (Lion 101)
• Mac OS X Server Essentials v10.7 (Lion 201)
• Mac OS X Directory Services v10.7 (Lion 301)
• Or Equivalent Experience

• Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.7 (Lion 101)
• Mac OS X Server Essentials v10.7 (Lion 201)
• Mac OS X 301: Mac OS X Directory Services v10.7

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

Day 1: Certificates

1. Lesson 1: Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption

• Fundamental Underpinnings of Encryption

2. Certificates and X.509 PKI

• Content and Structure of a Certificate
• Certificate Authorities and the Chain of Trust
• Keychains

3. Practical Certificates

• How to Obtain a Certificate
• How to Install on Mac OS X Server
• How to Store Certificates and their Private Keys Securely

Day 2: iOS Management

4. Configuration Profiles

• Settings that Can be Managed
• Settings that Cannot be Managed
• Structure of a Configuration Profile

5. Provisioning Profiles

• Ad Hoc Application Installation

6. Profile Manager

• Mass Deployment of Configuration Profiles to iOS Devices

7. Network Setup - Beyond the Server

• How to Make Your Internet Profile Manager Accessible

8. Working with Microsoft Exchange Server

• Exchange Server Requirements
• How iOS Interacts with an Exchange Server

Day 3: iOS Mass Deployment

9. Individual Sync

• Tools for Individual Sync Deployments
• App Store Volume Purchase Program

10. Central Sync

• Building a Device Configuration
• Creating Generic, Master, and Replica Sync Stations