Chapter 4. Managing Accounts

Time

This chapter takes approximately three hours to complete.

Goals

Configure Profile Manager

Construct management profiles

Deliver profiles

Install and delete profiles

Manage users, groups of users, devices, and groups of devices using profiles

If you run an organization with several hundred users or even just a handful, how can you make sure you can manage their experience with OS X and iOS? In previous chapters you learned management techniques involving the user name, password, and home folder. There are many other aspects to user account management, and it is important to understand how these various aspects interact with each other.

OS X Lion Server provides a service called Profile Manager that allows you, as the administrator, to assign certain behaviors to the client devices such as computers and mobile devices.