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We had an unmanaged macbook (at the time) go missing earlier this year. When we moved to JAMF the device was added as a managed device in Apple Business Manager.

The missing macbook showed up in JAMF a couple days ago. My understanding is that someone needed to reset the macbook in order for it to enroll to JAMF automatically. Are there other ways the enrollment process could be triggered other then a reset?

The Enrollment Method does have "PreStage enrollment: Apple Business Manager" so we know it was ADE. The IP address for the enrollment happens to be an existing employee so we want to make sure we understand how the enrollment happened.

Reset is the most common method for lost computers, but it is also possible without a reset. If a user skips prestage enrollment by not connecting to internet during setup assistant, they will get prompts once they are in the OS to enroll the device in the MDM. This can also be triggered by a 'sudo profiles renew -type enrollment' but Im not certain how that command would have been run.

ive seen machines report into other mdms when some one has copied files off a old machine via a backup / migration (but ive not tested that on jamf)

Reset is the most common method for lost computers, but it is also possible without a reset. If a user skips prestage enrollment by not connecting to internet during setup assistant, they will get prompts once they are in the OS to enroll the device in the MDM. This can also be triggered by a 'sudo profiles renew -type enrollment' but Im not certain how that command would have been run.


Thanks that is what I figured. 

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