Apple ID on Company-Issued iOS Devices?
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It took me 6 months to setup DEP and VPP. It was a pain. So many hoops to jump through. With DEP, you do not have to worry about having one master AppleID. Users can use their own. The whole point of DEP is to supervise devices better so you can clear that damn activation lock.
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@mattbagan said in Apple ID on Company-Issued iOS Devices?:
It took me 6 months to setup DEP and VPP. It was a pain. So many hoops to jump through. With DEP, you do not have to worry about having one master AppleID. Users can use their own. The whole point of DEP is to supervise devices better so you can clear that damn activation lock.
That is one of the main concerns here. I have had to contact former employees to login to icloud and remove the device from their account.
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@wrx7m said in Apple ID on Company-Issued iOS Devices?:
@mattbagan said in Apple ID on Company-Issued iOS Devices?:
It took me 6 months to setup DEP and VPP. It was a pain. So many hoops to jump through. With DEP, you do not have to worry about having one master AppleID. Users can use their own. The whole point of DEP is to supervise devices better so you can clear that damn activation lock.
That is one of the main concerns here. I have had to contact former employees to login to icloud and remove the device from their account.
DEP takes care of all of that. Its great. Its a pain to enroll older devices though. In order to enroll those, the seller would need to be an authorized reseller. So if you bought devices off of say Amazon you are more then likely out of luck.
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@mattbagan - Thanks for the heads-up. That is weird.
Ours come almost exclusively from AT&T and Apple. We are a consumer electronics manufacturer, so we also have a collection of iPhones that are used for testing but never deployed for production use with our IT systems; we get those from a variety of sources.
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@wrx7m If you have an account rep at AT&T, you can ask them to find out for you. I can buy from an Apple store and there business portal.
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@wrx7m said in Apple ID on Company-Issued iOS Devices?:
@mattbagan - Thanks for the heads-up. That is weird.
Ours come almost exclusively from AT&T and Apple. We are a consumer electronics manufacturer, so we also have a collection of iPhones that are used for testing but never deployed for production use with our IT systems; we get those from a variety of sources.
Most of the larger VARs will be able to register to your DEP account.
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Just got off the phone with Apple for the verification and got signed in. For some reason, I was not able to use the email address that I had signed up with as the login email, so I had to create a new alias for it. Dumb.
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@mattbagan said in Apple ID on Company-Issued iOS Devices?:
It took me 6 months to setup DEP and VPP. It was a pain. So many hoops to jump through. With DEP, you do not have to worry about having one master AppleID. Users can use their own. The whole point of DEP is to supervise devices better so you can clear that damn activation lock.
With Jamf we did it in about 2 hours.
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@bbigford said in Apple ID on Company-Issued iOS Devices?:
@mattbagan said in Apple ID on Company-Issued iOS Devices?:
It took me 6 months to setup DEP and VPP. It was a pain. So many hoops to jump through. With DEP, you do not have to worry about having one master AppleID. Users can use their own. The whole point of DEP is to supervise devices better so you can clear that damn activation lock.
With Jamf we did it in about 2 hours.
Jamf is expensive, but it makes life so much easier once you have it set up.
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@kelly - Yeah. I think Jamf have a 25-device minimum. I was looking at it for the 6 Macs we had. I don't know if it makes sense to do the iPhones MDM on it, since we also have Android devices that I need to manage. Hmm
