• iPhone

    A quick list of iOS Functionality Restrictions

    There are a lot of payloads that MDM and profiles can manage in iOS. Restrictions are probably the one I get the most questions about. And most are pretty self-explanatory. Sooooo, rather than open Profile Manager every time I need to see the list, here it is: Allow use of Camera Allow FaceTime Allow screenshots and screen recording Allow AirDrop (supervised only) Allow iMessage (supervised only) Allow voice dialing while device is locked Allow Siri Allow Siri while device is locked Enable Siri profanity filter (supervised only) Allow user-generated content in Siri (supervised only) Allow iBooks Store (supervised only) Allow installing apps using Apple Configurator and iTunes Allow installing apps…

  • iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security

    New iOS 9 Payloads

    There are some new restriction payloads in iOS 9. These include the following: allowNews Boolean Supervised only. If set to false, disables News. Defaults to true. Availability: Available in iOS 9.0 and later. forceAirDropUnmanaged Boolean Optional. If set to true, causes AirDrop to be considered an unmanaged drop target. Defaults to false. Availability: Available in iOS 9.0 and later. allowUIAppInstallation Boolean Supervised only. When false, the App Store is disabled and its icon is removed from the Home screen. However, users may continue to use Host apps (iTunes, Configurator) to install or update their apps. Defaults to true. Availability: Available in iOS 9.0 and later. allowScreenShot Boolean Optional. If set to false, users can’t save a screenshot of the display…

  • Bushel,  iPhone,  Mass Deployment

    How To View What Payloads Do To Devices

    You can see exactly what Bushel, and other MDM platforms do to your OS X devices using the System Information utility. As with all Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions that interface with OS X, you can use the About this Mac menu item under the Apple menu at the top of the screen to bring up the System Information utility. When you open this tool, you will see a lot of information that can be derived about your devices. Scroll down the list and click on Profiles. Here, you will see all of the Device and User profiles that have been installed on your computer, the payloads within each profile and…