Hello,
I'm trying to understand the recommended workflow for a school using both Microsoft Entra ID federation and Apple School Manager / Jamf School synchronization.
Current setup:
- Apple School Manager is already federated with Microsoft Entra ID.
- All Managed Apple IDs have already been created successfully.
- We currently have only one ASM location (the original/default location).
- Jamf School is already connected to ASM and synchronized with that location.
- Our goal is simply to create and synchronize classes/rosters for Apple Classroom and Jamf School.
The issue:
If I manually create my classes in Apple School Manager and assign students and teachers to them, everything works correctly after the synchronization between Jamf School and ASM.
However, how should this be handled when using a OneRoster/SFTP import into Apple School Manager?
When I enable SFTP / OneRoster synchronization from Jamf School to Apple School Manager, ASM creates a new location instead of associating the imported classes with the existing location.
This raises several questions:
- Is it officially supported to import OneRoster classes into the original ASM location that already contains federated Entra ID users?
- Or is the recommended workflow to create a dedicated OneRoster location in ASM and import classes there?
- If a new location is required, will I end up with two locations in Jamf School: the original one and the new OneRoster location?
I have read Apple's documentation, the note stating that SFTP cannot create student or staff accounts in the original location...I'm a bit lost.
I'd be very interested in hearing from anyone who has implemented this exact scenario in production.
Thanks!