One of the improvements that shipped with the R2 release of Configuration Manager 2012 was the ability to deploy company resources such as Wi-Fi profiles, certificates, and VPN profiles. This functionality really opened up the management story for organizations that already have a big take up of bring your own device or have mobility in their long-term strategy.

The company resource profiles are really useful in extending some of the services that you provide to domain-based clients using Group Policy. Some examples of this include deploying VPN and Wi-Fi profiles to domain clients using Group Policy preferences.

As you cannot deploy a group policy to non-domain-joined devices, it becomes really useful to manage and deploy these via Configuration Manager.

Another great use case for company resource profiles is deploying certificates. Configuration Manager includes the functionality to...