In the previous part of the chapter we've created a generic Configuration Profile to deploy to users over the Internet. The method to do this is fairly straightforward; the Configuration Profile is uploaded once to a web server—in our case our Exchange Client Access Servers. Next, each iOS device that requires the settings contained in our Configuration Profile to be applied to the device visits a specific URL to install the configuration profile. Finally the Exchange ActiveSync relationship is created with the Exchange Server infrastructure.
The following diagram shows a simple overview of this process:
Before we're able to deploy Configuration Profiles via the web, we need to make a change to the IIS server settings on each Exchange Client Access server that will serve the Configuration Profile files.
The .mobileconfig
file extension used is not, by default, registered in IIS. Therefore when the file is requested...