{"id":106,"date":"2008-07-29T07:53:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T07:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/emailing-iphone-configurations\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T07:53:13","slug":"emailing-iphone-configurations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/emailing-iphone-configurations\/","title":{"rendered":"Emailing iPhone configurations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was having a conversation with someone about the <a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/10\/iphone-web-configuration-utility\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone configuration utility<\/a> and heard a comment asking why the iPhone allows settings to be emailed to the device.&nbsp; What they meant was that if your device is un-configured it wouldn&#8217;t have any email accounts to receive the settings &#8211; a chicken and egg kinda thing.<\/p>\n<p>The simple answer is for ongoing maintenance of the config.&nbsp; Sure it&#8217;ll be easier to deploy an initial setup using other means &#8211; the web for example.&nbsp; But if you already have iPhones out in the field email should be a good delivery method for applying changes.<\/p>\n<p>One thing to consider there though is training your users not to install configuration profiles that are marked as un-trusted, or that they are not expecting.&nbsp; After all, anyone can download the config utilities and email out profiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was having a conversation with someone about the iPhone configuration utility and heard a comment asking why the iPhone allows settings to be emailed to the device.&nbsp; What they meant was that if your device is un-configured it wouldn&#8217;t have any email accounts to receive the settings &#8211; a chicken and egg kinda &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/emailing-iphone-configurations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emailing iPhone configurations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[31,121,131],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-work","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-configuration-utility","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}