Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple platform deployment
- What’s new
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- Declarative status reports
- 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
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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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Security device management payload settings for Apple devices
You can configure Security settings for users of a Mac that enrolls in a device management service. Use the Security payloads to set various Gatekeeper and security options.
The Security payloads support the following. For more information, see Payload information.
Supported payload identifiers: com.apple.preference.security, com.apple.systempolicy.control, com.apple.systempolicy.rule
Supported operating systems and channels: macOS device, macOS user.
Supported enrollment methods: Device Enrollment, Automated Device Enrollment.
Duplicates allowed: False—only one Security payload can be delivered to a user or device.
You can use the settings in the table below with the Security payloads.
Setting | Description | Required | |||||||||
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Configure Gatekeeper settings | Set which apps are allowed to launch on the Mac:
| No | |||||||||
Don’t allow user to override Gatekeeper setting | Prevent users from using Control-click to open an unidentified app or from installing an app using the Installer app. | No | |||||||||
Allow user to change password | Specify whether users are permitted to change their password. | No | |||||||||
Require password after sleep or screen saver begins | Specify whether a password is required upon waking or when a screen saver ends as a result of mouse, trackpad, or keyboard movement. | No | |||||||||
Allow user to set lock message | Specify whether users can set a short message that appears at the bottom of the Lock Screen. | No | |||||||||
Allow user to unlock the Mac using Apple Watch. | Specify whether users can unlock their Mac with Apple Watch. | No |
Note: Each device management service developer implements these settings differently. To learn how Security settings are applied to your devices and users, consult your developer’s device management service documentation.