How can we setup the Jamf Migrate tool, to migrate iPads from Jamf Pro to Jamf School?

[cxiong23]

Hello, 

This is a bit long so please bare with me here, thanks! 

I was wondering if anyone could guide me on how I can set this up? I was at JNUC and got a relatively good idea of what it can do when I was at the session. I was told that switching to Jamf School could be done. I will be scheduling something with an engineer in my region, but if I could get a hand on doing this to test on an iPad first, that would be great if I gather more questions and info for the meeting. 

What can I do to set this up best? Majority of our iPads are already on Jamf School. I just want to know the best way I can prepare for this in the future with maybe the last several hundred iPads still in Jamf Pro left. We will begin retiring older iPads and removing them from Jamf and Apple School Manager altogether, so at least that I don't have to worry about. 

I was looking at the Jamf Migrator tool on Github. Skimming through it it looks like something to setup transferring the whole server and data to a different Jamf MDM. We don't really need that as there are configurations in place for Jamf Pro, especially for our Mac devices. The previous Jamf admin we had, she tried School for a Mac device but switched back to Jamf Pro. 

I know we can manually just wipe each iPad and switch MDMs on Apple School Manager, but the majority of the last Jamf Pro iPads have apps with settings that can't be saved on a cloud, or may need airdropping to another iPad for settings. If Jamf Migrate can just switch MDMs, and nothing else gets touched, this would be ideal. Config profiles shouldn't matter as I can learn to re-build them to Jamf School. 

Basically plan is:

• Mac Devices > Jamf Pro
• Mobile Devices > Jamf School

Thank you for reading! 

[Tribruin · Accepted solution]

While Jamf Migrator can move devices, such as iPads between Jamf Pro instances (not sure about Jamf School as I don't use it.) it does NOT move the management of the device between Jamf Pro instances. The only way to move the enrollment is to unenroll the iPad and enroll in to your new MDM server. If you are using ABM, that will involve wiping the iPad and starting from scratch. 

If you iPads happened to have been enrolled via User Initiated Enrollment, it is possible that you could send and unmanage command from your current Jamf instance and then re-enroll them manually. But that sounds like a lot of work. 

[cxiong23]

Thank you! 

I will try that unmanage command. I vaguely remember doing something similar when I was first learning how to migrate MDMs (which was the move device MDM in Apple School Manager and wipe > re-enroll). I'll have to look into this!