Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple platform deployment
- What’s new
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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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- Declarative app configuration settings
- Authentication credentials and identity asset settings
- Calendar declarative settings
- 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
- Passcode declarative configuration
- Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
- Screen Sharing declarative configuration
- Service configuration files declarative configuration
- Software Update declarative configuration
- Subscribed Calendars declarative configuration
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- Document revision history
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IPsec MDM settings for Apple devices
You can configure an IPsec VPN connection for Apple devices enrolled in a mobile device management (MDM) solution. You can choose the type of machine authentication required. The options are:
Shared Secret/Group Name
Certificate-based
Tables follow for each type of machine authentication that’s required.
IPsec Machine Authentication Shared Secret/Group Name settings
Setting | Description | Required | |||||||||
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Connection name | The display name of the VPN connection. | Yes | |||||||||
Hostname | The IP address or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the VPN server. | Yes | |||||||||
Account | The user account for authenticating the VPN connection. | Yes | |||||||||
Group name | The group identifier for the VPN connection. | No | |||||||||
Shared secret | The shared secret for the VPN connection. | No | |||||||||
Hybrid authentication | Allows authentication using the group name, secret, and a server-side certificate. | No | |||||||||
Prompt for password | Users can be prompted for their password on the device. | No |
Certificate settings
Setting | Description | Required | |||||||||
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Connection name | The display name of the VPN connection. | Yes | |||||||||
Hostname | The IP address or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the VPN server. | Yes | |||||||||
Account | The user account for authenticating the VPN connection. | Yes | |||||||||
Certificate payload | The Certificates payload for the VPN connection. | Yes | |||||||||
User PIN | The credential for authorizing the VPN connection. | No | |||||||||
VPN on Demand | Specifies whether to enable VPN on Demand to access specific websites. The action applies to all matching addresses. Addresses are compared using simple string matching, starting from the end and working backward. The address “.betterbag.com” matches “support.betterbag.com” and “sales.betterbag.com,” but doesn’t match “www.private-betterbag.com.” However, if you specify the match domain as “betterbag.com”—notice there isn’t a period at the beginning—it matches “www.private-betterbag.com” and all the others. Note: After 2 minutes of inactivity, the device closes a VPN session initiated by VPN On Demand. If the connection is initiated manually using Settings, only the VPN server’s timeout applies. | No | |||||||||
Match domain or hostname | Domain and hostnames that can establish a VPN connection. When domains or hostnames are added, VPN on Demand can be configured for each entry. These options are:
| No |
Note: Each MDM vendor implements these settings differently. To learn how IPsec settings are applied to your devices and users, consult your MDM vendor’s documentation.