What is Profile Manager?

Profile Manager provides administrators with a configuration profile editor, a user portal where users can download configuration profiles, and a mobile device management (MDM) server for automatic profile distribution and management.

Before you begin

To complete this tutorial, you need a few things:

A Mac (the server) to run Profiles Manager service
This tutorial uses “myserver.local” as the server’s host name.
A user name and password on the server
An iPad (the client) with iOS 8 or later installed
The server and the client on the same Wi-Fi network
An Apple ID to set up push notifications

Go to Lesson 1: Remotely manage an iPad.