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title: Device management essentials
framework: Device Management
role: collectionGroup
path: devicemanagement/device-management-essentials
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# Device management essentials

Set up and maintain connectivity with devices and leverage declarative device management.

## Topics

### Connectivity

- [Managing connections](devicemanagement/managing-connections.md)
- [Managing certificates for device management services and devices](devicemanagement/managing-certificates-for-device-management-services-and-devices.md)
- [Providing information about your device management service](devicemanagement/providing-information-about-your-device-management-service.md)
- [Dealing with inactive managed devices and invalid push tokens](devicemanagement/dealing-with-inactive-managed-devices-and-invalid-push-tokens.md)

### Push notifications

- [Setting up push notifications for your device management customers](devicemanagement/setting-up-push-notifications-for-your-device-management-customers.md)

### Commands

- [Sending MDM commands to a device](devicemanagement/sending-mdm-commands-to-a-device.md)
- [Handling NotNow status responses](devicemanagement/handling-notnow-status-responses.md)

### Declarative device management

- [Leveraging the declarative management data model to scale devices](devicemanagement/leveraging-the-declarative-management-data-model-to-scale-devices.md)
- [Integrating declarative management](devicemanagement/integrating-declarative-management.md)

## See Also

### Implementing device management

- [Device enrollment](devicemanagement/device-enrollment.md)
- [Identity management](devicemanagement/identity-management.md)
- [Content management](devicemanagement/content-management.md)
- [Device life cycle](devicemanagement/device-life-cycle.md)