Once this is done, whenever you order your devices, they will be automatically assigned to your ASM account. Screenshot of the resellers active on our Apple School Manager account (names and numbers redacted). To do this, you’re going to need their Apple account details and add them to your approved suppliers. I’m going to refer to it as ASM from here, as that’s what I’m using - but I believe they are interchangeable. When you order a device from your supplier, you’re going to want to make sure that they add it to your ASM account. Step 1: Ensure that your suppliers are correctly setup to add devices to your account. On with the rest of the show.Īs I’ve already mentioned, one major part of this will be the configuration of your A(B/S)M account. I appreciate that not all Apple Admins have networking experience, so if this is the case, I suggest you discuss this with your relevant networking team to ensure that this will be possible for you. You can read through the Jamf documentation on setting these up here, so I won't cover these in-depth configs: Within Jamf Pro, you’re going to need to have at least one HTTPS distribution point configured to ensure the machines can download the required packages when prompted. If I get around to it, I may actually try it from the Beta Cloud service, too. I’ll be working from a self-hosted installation, but I see no reason as to why this wouldn’t work with the Jamf Pro Cloud offering. The next thing you’re going to need (at least if you’re following along with me), is Jamf Pro. Your devices will need to be running macOS Bug Sur or later. Without it, this entire automated process falls at the starting gate. This whole process relies upon Automated Device Enrolment (previously known as Device Enrolment Program (DEP)). The very first thing you’re going to need in place is either Apple Business Manager, or Apple School Manager. This has been the culmination of a lot of learning, and many, many mistakes over the past few years that I’ve been working in this team. I’m mostly writing this for myself, because, if I ever have to try to put any of this back together again, I’m going to need notes. In this first post, I’m going to detail some prerequisites and the setup required to make any of this possible. There are a lot of moving parts, so if you’re following along, I’d advise you wait for all parts to be published, go through it, and plan it out for your environment rather than just blindly following. Not only that, but I’d love to hear your feedback in areas where this could be improved. I can’t guarantee that this is the perfect way of doing it, but it’s what I’m doing right now. Welcome to part one of my blog post series about deploying lab (multi-user) iMac’s in a fully automated way, from box to … bench? I’m not sure how many posts this is going to be split down to yet.
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