+11I would like to enable the apple seed for IT beta program using the Beta token from Apple school manager to allow a device to get betas with out needing to login with an Apple ID on the device.
Reading documentation we are able to get the token using a script. But at that point Jamf is requiring you to use blueprints with this token. Since we are on prem we do not have access to bleuprints.
Any way to deploy the token a device using a config profile? How are other MDM’s enabling this?
+6No, the AppleSeed for IT beta token cannot be deployed via a traditional configuration profile. The beta token must be delivered through a DDM declaration (com.apple.configuration.softwareupdate.settings with the Beta dictionary) — this is not a payload that can be wrapped in a .mobileconfig file.
Since you're on-prem, Blueprints is not available to you. Blueprints requires Jamf Standard or Premium Cloud hosting with Jamf Account SSO integration.
How other MDMs handle this: Other MDMs that support custom DDM declarations (e.g., Kandji, Mosyle, SimpleMDM, Fleet) can deploy the softwareupdate.settings declaration directly — but they are all cloud-hosted solutions. DDM is fundamentally a server-side capability that requires the MDM server to support the DDM protocol exchange with devices.
Your options as an on-prem Jamf Pro customer with ASM:
Unfortunately, there is no workaround to deploy DDM declarations via config profiles — they are fundamentally different delivery mechanisms.
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