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
- Authentication credentials and identity asset declaration
- Background task management declarative
- Calendar declarative configuration
- 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
- Math and Calculator app declarative configuration
- Passcode declarative configuration
- Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
- Safari extensions management declarative configuration
- Screen Sharing declarative configuration
- Service configuration files declarative configuration
- Software Update declarative configuration
- Software Update settings declarative configuration
- Storage management declarative configuration
- Subscribed Calendars declarative configuration
- Glossary
- Document revision history
- Copyright
Service configuration files declarative configuration for Apple devices
Use the Service configuration files configuration to provide managed settings for common system services in a robust and tamper-resistant way. When the configuration is activated, the archive is downloaded and expanded into a special tamper-proof, service-specific location. The service-specific location can be found by calling a function in a public library, so that any service can adopt managed service configuration files. The following built-in services are modified to look for the managed service configuration files, which take precedence over built-in settings:
sshdsudoPAMCUPSApachezsh (/private/etc/zprofile)bash (/private/etc/profile)
The Service configuration files configuration supports the following:
Minimum supported operating systems and channels: macOS 14 device.
Requires supervision: Yes.
Supported enrollment types: Device Enrollment, Automated Device Enrollment.
Setting | Description | Required | |||||||||
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Service type | The identifier of the system service the managed configuration files are related to. Use a reverse DNS style for this identifier. | Yes | |||||||||
Data asset | An asset declaration that contains the service configuration files. The files must be distributed as a .zip archive of a directory that can contain one or many files and that should mirror the layout of the directory it replaces. | Yes | |||||||||
Note: Each MDM vendor implements these settings differently. To learn how various Service configuration files’ settings are applied to your devices and users, consult your MDM vendor’s documentation.