Using Setup Assistant with modern authentication

This week is all about the support for a new authentication method when using Automated Device Enrollment (ADE). That new authentication method is Setup Assistant with modern authentication and is available for iOS/iPadOS devices running version 13.0 and later and for macOS devices running version 10.15 and later. Setup Assistant with modern authentication enables organizations to require authentication with Azure AD, including the ability to require MFA, and enables users to immediately use their device. This post provides an introduction to this new authentication method, followed with the steps to configure an enrollment profile with this new authentication method. This post ends with a quick look at the enrollment experience when using Setup Assistant with modern authentication. Note: At the moment of writing Setup Assistant …

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Getting started with Shared iPad devices

This week is all around Shared iPad devices with Microsoft Intune. Shared iPad is an iPadOS configuration that easily lets multiple user share the same iPad. That configuration enables a personal experience for a user, on a device that is shared between multiple users. That personal experience enables users to be more productive, as users can simply pick-up where they left off previously. This post will start with a short introduction to Shared iPad devices, followed with the configuration steps for those devices. This post will end by describing and showing the user experience with Shared iPad devices. Introduction to Shared iPad devices With shared devices, this post is referring to company-owned multi-user devices that can be used – depending on the use case – …

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Further integrating Apple Business Manager with Microsoft Intune

A few weeks ago I’ve discussed the integration of Apple Business Manager (ABM) with Azure AD, to provision the Managed Apple IDs and to provide a federation. That provides a very nice user experience, when used in combination with Microsoft Intune. This week I want to extend on ABM by further integrating it with Microsoft Intune. As a bare minimum for managing Apple devices it’s always required to use the Apple MDM Push certificate. I hope that every IT administrator can dream the required steps for such a certificate by now. On top of that, ABM can be used to facilitate company-owned devices and to facilitate volume purchased apps. That provides an even better experience on company-owned Apple devices. A great out-of-the-box experience together with …

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Getting started with User Enrollment for iOS/iPadOS devices

This week is all around the User Enrollment option that was introduced with iOS 13 and iPadOS 13.1 and that is currently available as preview functionality in Microsoft Intune. User Enrollment feels similar to what already can be achieved on Android devices with Work Profiles. A separation between personal data and company data. In this post I’ll start with a short introduction about User Enrollment, followed with the steps to created an enrollment profile that will facilitate the User Enrollment. I’ll end this post by show the end-user experience during the enrollment and after the enrollment. Introduction to User Enrollment User Enrollment is created and designed by Apple to facilitate an enrollment and management scenario for Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD). That enrollment and management …

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Quick tip: Manually adding devices to Apple Business Manager

This week a quick extra post. I noticed that there was not a lot of information available regarding manually adding devices to Apple Business Manager (ABM) for usage with Automated Device Enrollment (ADE). That makes sense, because the idea is that devices are automatically added to ABM after purchase. However, sometimes it’s useful to be able to manually add devices. Manually adding devices, can be achieved the easiest by following the two steps described below. Before starting with those steps make sure that: an enrollment program token is available and that the synchronization between ABM and Microsoft Intune is active, Find My {AppleDevice} is disabled, and that a mobile configuration is available that contains the WiFi configuration to simplify the enrollment Step 1: Create an …

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Federated authentication for Managed Apple IDs

This week is all about federated authentication for Managed Apple IDs. When using Microsoft Intune for managing Apple devices, the use of Managed Apple IDs is adding more and more value to the solution. That value gets even more when those Managed Apple IDs are federated with Azure AD. That would provide the user with a single account to remember and to use. Together that brings a very nice experience to Apple devices that are using federated Managed Apple IDs and are managed with Microsoft Intune. In this post I’ll discuss and describe the following information regarding Managed Apple IDs: What are Managed Apple IDs and why using them? Federated authentication for Managed Apple IDs Automatically provisioned users from Azure AD Provisioned user with federated …

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