For some time now, iOS 11.3 was touted to be the major release from the Apple stable and as stated, it turned out to be quite huge especially from the perspective of device management. Mobile Device Manager Plus MSP is fully compatible with Apple iOS 11.3, delivering a better experience for IT administrators and device users. All of Mobile Device Manager Plus MSP's existing features are supported, as well as two of the major new features in Apple iOS 11.3. Here's how Mobile Device Manager Plus MSP works in tandem with newly supported features, to deliver better performance in enterprise mobility management.
With iOS beginning to support automating OS updates, the next obvious configuration was the option to prevent users from manually updating it. Though MDM MSP does have a workaround solution to achieve this, direct support to delay OS updates is much simpler. Users manually updating device OS has the following issues:
In such a scenario, enterprises provision an OS deployment policy for the devices in the organization. On provisioning the policy, users are automatically restricted from manually updating the device OS ensuring Admins are not forced to create a separate policy to restrict manual OS updates.
With schools being the second largest entity after enterprises requiring device management, this features fortifies device management in schools. When configured, this restriction ensures students can leave the Classroom app only if permitted by the teacher. The teacher receives a notification prompt regarding this and only if it is accepted, does the student get to leave the classroom app.
Managed contacts here refers to, the contacts distributed via Contact Sync policy and/or the contacts present on your E-mail or Exchange account, which were previously configured on the device via MDM MSP. These contacts cannot be accessed by unmanaged apps(apps not distributed by MDM MSP), preventing misuse of contact details.
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