Big Changes to Apple’s iOS Device Management Tools

Matthew Panzarino at TechCrunch on the updates:

Both the enterprise and education programs now have support for Mobile Device Management hands-free configuration. This ‘zero touch’ setup has been a long-requested feature for many pros, as it eliminates the need to cable up every deployed device and install a profile via Apple’s Configurator utility.

There’s a whole bunch of changes that you can check out for yourself, but the one above alone will have a lot of IT Managers I know dancing in the street.

If organisations can truly do device enrollment in an MDM from the web browser without touching the devices at all, this is a major leap forward for both enterprise & education deployments.