Deploy MCM policies
Deploying MCM policies enables administrators to configure and manage MCM devices.
Note:
- Master Operators can perform all actions. The following notes applies only to
users other than Master Operators:
- Only users having access to the MDM application via BigFix WebUI can deploy MDM policies. Master Operator can configure access permissions through WebUI Permission service.
- Only non-master operators with the permission Create,Edit, and Delete Non-Custom Policies can create native MDM policies (Kernel Extensions, Passcode Policy, Certificate policies, Restrictions policies, Full Disk Access).
- Only users with the permission Can Create Actions in the BigFix Console can deploy MDM policies. These users also need permissions in the BigFix custom sites associated with view/edit/deploy the policies unless the policies were created in the master action site. For more information about permissions, see MDM Permissions.
- You can deploy an MDM policy only to MDM managed endpoints. Deploying MDM policies to device groups with non-MDM devices will fail.
- WebUI will prevent users generating actions that do not apply to the right device type. For example, WebUI prevents deploying MDM policies to native BigFix agent devices or cloud devices.
- If you attempt to deploy an MDM policy on a correlated device with both a native BigFix representation and an MDM representation, it will result in deploying the MDM policy only to the MDM device.
Follow these steps to deploy MDM policies:
- Go to the Devices list.
- Select one or more devices to which you want to deploy the MDM policies.
- Click Deploy button.
- Select Deploy MDM Policy from the drop down list.
- Click Edit Policies to select the policy you want to deploy.
- Click Deploy to deploy the MDM policy to the selected
devices.Note: Non-master operators need visibility on the sites where policies were created to deploy them. If non-master operators do not see the right MDM policies in this deployment workflow, they must check their BigFix site permissions.