Just in time for killing time over the holidays, Apple this week updated one of its most essential enterprise products: its Deployment and Management Tutorials, which now cover all the latest iterations of the company’s iPhone, Mac, and iPad operating systems.
What this means is that Apple offers enterprise admins around 12 hours of in-depth course content to help them gain the skills and knowledge required to configure, deploy, and manage Apple devices in their organizations. The course content is useful to anyone working in business, of course. It should give anyone involved in IT decision-making a sense of what’s required to manage Apple products at work.
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The biggest take-away is that the courses have been built to support an ecosystem that’s as consumer-simple to enterprise admins as it is to any other kind of customer. That’s the point, of course, and a big driver for Apple’s steadily increasing presence in the enterprise — as is the emergence of products such as Apple Watch or Apple TV in business.
Apple’s approach continues to generate dividends.
Not only is it seeing overall OS share increase against enterprise incumbent Windows, but in mobile iOS absolutely leads across the world’s biggest businesses. This success has spawned a strong network of device management companies, whose customers live and breathe the kind of information contained in the new Apple course.
Apple IT training: Now in its third edition
Apple began offering IT training and certification courses in the summer of 2022. With the content updated for the latest operating systems, the company has offered three iterations of them. You’ll find three tracks, for Device Support, Deployment and Management, and for Apple Business Essentials.
The first two lean into each other, while the third course is more specific. All the courses are free, though Apple charges $149 for each exam and passing those exams do require that you gain additional experience.
So, what’s inside the course?
Naturally, it’s all about mobile device management, including information to help new-to-Apple admins get a grip on how to approach deployment scenarios, how to prepare, and all the ins and outs of device enrolment, management, and redeployment. These are ssentially the building blocks IT needs to work with third-party MDM vendors.
The content extends all the way into how the MDM protocols, code inside Apple’s devices, can be used to manage a variety of tasks, including items like managed apps, books, software updates and more. It also offers a hefty explanation concerning device security and the challenges and strategies to help deliver that.
How the courses work
Available online, everything is explained in an Apple way, which means with a high-degree of clarity and informative graphics and illustration that responds to where you are in the content.
Through a series of bite-sized lessons — the longest is 30 minutes in…
2023-12-24 18:00:04
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