Creating and assigning profiles

You can use profiles to define the settings on devices. After you create profiles, you can assign them to a user account or to a group of user accounts.

Profile Description

VPN

Allows you to specify how devices connect to your organization's VPN

Wi-Fi

Allows you to specify how devices connect to your organization's Wi-Fi network

Microsoft ActiveSync

Allows you to specify how devices connect to your organization's messaging server and synchronize email messages and organizer data using Microsoft ActiveSync

Global HTTP proxy

Allows you to direct all HTTP traffic to and from the personal space on iOS devices through a proxy server behind your organization’s firewall. Supported for iOS devices that run iOS 6.0 or later and are supervised using Apple Configurator

CA certificate

Allows devices that use certificate-based authentication to trust network or server certificates in your organization's environment

Client certificate

Allows you to provide client certificates to users' devices using SCEP or a shared certificate

User certificate

Allows you to assign a client certificate to an individual user account and send the certificate file to the user's devices

Compliance

Allows you to set conditions that require or restrict apps and restrict jailbroken or rooted devices

Activation type

Allows you to specify how a device is managed after a user activates it. The profile applies only to the next device that a user activates, and not to any currently activated devices.

Work space HTTP proxy

Allows you to direct all HTTP traffic for the work browser on supported iOS and Android devices through a proxy server behind your organization’s firewall