Thanks for the announcements and new features coming with device management. I noticed that there is a new declarative management that was mentioned in the list of videos under business & education. What would this compose of and how would this integrate into existing apple business accounts? Is there also newer features that would make deployment of devices faster or improved work flows?
Thank you
Declarative Device Management is Apple's modern evolution beyond traditional MDM commands. Rather than the server issuing imperative commands that the device must acknowledge, Declarative Device Management uses a declaration-based model. This means the server pushes a set of typed declarations (configurations, activations, assets, and management objects) and the device is responsible for continuously evaluating and self-enforcing them. This makes device state more reliable so that devices don't need to be polled, they self-report status and self-heal when configuration drifts. The "What's new in managing Apple devices" session this week covers the latest additions to Declarative Device Management.
Apple Business Manager operates at the organizational/provisioning layer and has no direct relationship to Declarative Device Management, which is a device-level communication protocol handled entirely between the MDM server and the enrolled device.
