Apple Posts iPhone Enterprise Information and Configuration Utilities

[MacRumors]

Apple has posted an iPhone Enterprise support page to assist corporate customers looking to take advantage of the new capabilities of the iPhone 2.0 software. The page includes a link to a detailed Enterprise Deployment Guide (PDF) providing setup assistance for these enterprise users.

Apple has also released a configuration utility to assist system administrators with creating configuration profiles that will allow users' devices to communicate with their enterprise systems.

Configuration profiles are XML files that contain device security policies, VPN configuration information, Wi-Fi settings, APN settings, Exchange account settings, mail settings, and certificates that permit iPhone and iPod touch to work with your enterprise systems.

Three versions of the configuration utility are available, a standalone OS X application and web-based applications for both Mac and Windows:
- iPhone Configuration Utility 1.0 for Mac OS X (8.77 MB)
- iPhone Configuration Web Utility 1.0 for Mac (2.29 MB)
- iPhone Configuration Web Utility 1.0 for Windows (5.18 MB)

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[t0mat0]

Should be interesting to see what the uptake of the iPhone is in business - looks like it'll be fairly easy to set this up into a business with Exchange already running. I bet some Windows biased IT support is going to have to start learning Mac!

 

[Sky Blue]

Can't wait to play with the VPN tomorrow ... now where's that RDP app...

I bet some Windows biased IT support is going to have to start learning Mac!

They should, but they won't!

 

[elppa]

Dan Gruber has more at daringfireball.

It's a Ruby on Rails app, running on a WEBrick server on port 3000.

Pretty neat cross platform solution which probably didn't take as long to develop as a desktop app.

Installs in /usr/local/iPhoneConfigService/, so you can have a look and see how they did it

 

[Rocketman]

It’s not SproutCore. It is "plenty of Prototype/script.aculo.us".

 

[elppa]

Apologies, you are quite right.

 

[rritterson]

remote wipe

The most interesting thing in the PDF is on page 7-- remote wipe!

Hopefully they will add this as a MobileMe feature too...

 

[Blackforge]

I played with them for most of the day. The utilities are fine. However, they seem to be lacking a very important feature and that is being able to configure the http proxy settings for VPN/Wi-Fi connections. The deployment guide has a section about the "Configuration Profile Format" and mentions proxy settings, but not very helpful about where to put it in the config file.

I have made some working profiles though, for the rest of the features.


As far as Remote Wipe goes, it works very fast and appears to be very effective. We wiped one of my co-workers phones with 2.0 loaded and it immediately rebooted into the apple logo and he couldn't do anything with it. Once it "finished" it wanted to be connected back to iTunes. Why? Well, because it totally deleted the firmware Upon reconnecting the device, it started a restore.

 

[Dammit Cubs]

for this is not working.

I got the exchange server information, username and password working.

I got it to work for a split section and my password is working correctly to "set up the device"

But after everything is peachy. It says I have the wrong password (when I don't) and when I type it in (it still says wrong password).

I went to a different computer to verify and my password is correct.

I was there.....Almost there!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kornyboy]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

The most interesting thing in the PDF is on page 7-- remote wipe!

Hopefully they will add this as a MobileMe feature too...

I hope so too. That would be a nice feature to have just in case something happens to it.

 

[vrillusions]

Has anyone figured out how to sign the configs? I've been able to create a test CA, imported the root certificate, added some VPN settings, went to sign it and it won't let me choose a certificate to sign. (I can choose the private key file, but not the certificate)

 

[crackermac]

Bye Bye BB

Tossed aside my Blackberry this morning.

 

[dstrauss]

Sorry So Stupid

So, what exactly does VPN get you if you can already get your Exchange email/calendar/contacts with the Exchange setup?

 

[Blackforge]

So, what exactly does VPN get you if you can already get your Exchange email/calendar/contacts with the Exchange setup?

Access to internal websites and any other internal resources that may not be published to internet or published using SSL.

 

[j-a-x]

Ahh.. so this is how you configure 802.1x connections that require funky authentication settings like my university. Can't wait to test it out on Monday.