Apple ID's and iPads

[bradym]

Hello,

First of all I have had a quick check and nothing new about this has been posted for a while, so just wanted some clarification.

I am about to setup a trolley full of iPads which will be all the same. Do I have to setup each iPad individually with an apple ID or can the same one be used for each iPad using casper?

Thanks

[St0rMl0rD]

What do you need the Apple IDs for?

[bradym]

Need to install apps when they get pushed out from Casper.

[St0rMl0rD]

Go with device-based assignments, and push the apps out directly to iOS 9 devices without Apple IDs.

[RLR]

You can now assign apps to devices so they don't require Apple ID's. The iPads do need to be in DEP though.

[St0rMl0rD]

Are you sure about that, @RLR?

[jason_busch]

Yup: https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/article.html?id=418

[bradym]

Thanks for the responses, how would it be possible to do this please?

Any information on this would be great thanks!

Mike

[jason_busch]

Moving from User- to Device-based VPP Assignments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XllT77Xe16k

[jason_busch]

YouTube overview

[Sandy]

We are using Device based assignment for our carts that were originally supervised in Apple Configurator 1.7.2, so they are supervised and not in DEP.
Has been working well, on a limited basis, to add apps to devices that have been updated to 9.2.1

[St0rMl0rD]

This is my experience as well - we can deploy device-based apps to devices, that are NOT in DEP. So it's not true that they have to be in DEP in order to deploy device-bassed apps to them.

[sulanseytkach]

@St0rMl0rD My understanding is that supervision via DEP was the prerequisite for device-based app assignments. Is the workaround supervising via Apple Configurator 2?

Thanks!

[Sandy]

I think there might be a typo somewhere that says supervised AND DEP but it should say supervised OR DEP...in any case:

We currently have carts supervised and enrolled in jss using Apple Configurator 1.7.x We have a profile hiding the App Store and we have sent apps to them using device based distribution.
Works great, iPads have to be iOS 9.x I have pushed free and paid apps out to several of these carts with no issues.

We also have 1 to 1 iPads for middle schoolers. These are in DEP and supervised. I just converted all their apps to device based distribution without interruption and now have the App Store hidden and all apps in Self Service Mobile.
Sandy

[jarednichols]

To clarify:

If you want your MDM to be able to push apps with no user interaction, the device must be supervised (DEP, or Configurator).

You can do device-based VPP on non-supervised devices, but the user will be prompted to install the app.

[sulanseytkach]

Ah, okay, so supervised or DEP really means supervised via Apple Configurator or supervised via DEP.

Jared, I'm a little confused by your example. If the user will be prompted to install the app, won't they need to enter an Apple ID? That sounds like user-based app assignments.

Thanks!

[chris_miller]

Yes, in that case it's just user based and needs an Apple ID. I will chime in and say the device based VPP works really, really well. Taking the user out of the equation eliminated a ton of issues.

[jarednichols]

If the user will be prompted to install the app, won't they need to enter an Apple ID? That sounds like user-based app assignments.

No, not if the app is set to deploy via device-based VPP. If the device is unsupervised (e.g. they were manually enrolled, or they're BYOD) the user will still be prompted to install the app. Only when a device is supervised can you silently install an app (whether it's Apple ID-based VPP or device-based VPP).

I understand there's a lot of minutiae here.

[futuraskolan]

How can you enrol ipads on Jamf without asking for the apple ID? After the message "the company will configure your ipad* the screen for the apple ID comes up ... we use shared ipads so cannot have apple ID....

Thank you

[mmcallister]

@futuraskolan In your PreStage Enrollment settings you can select to skip AppleID in the setup assistant.