QuickAdd.pkg on Big Sur

I remember reading in the Jamf Pro release notes that quickadd package functionality was being reduced / deprecated going forward. The preferred methods are device enrolment or user initated enrolment.

Jamf Pro Release Notes 10.25.0

Can someone clarify the correct method for this? When I send an enrollment invitation it downloads a quick add PKG which as discussed does not work.

@jcrain If you're not using Apple Business Manager/Apple School Manager and Automated Device Enrollment then you need to enable User-Initiated Enrollment and have your users on Big Sur enroll by going to https://YourJSSAddress.com/enroll

An additional advantage to user-initiated enrollment via the web site (/enroll) is that it grants supervision of the computer (like with DEP/ADE), which was never possible with QuickAdd packages.

If you have a previous workflow setup for Mojave you can just image it to Mojave and then push a script to install&upgrade to Big Sur.

In macOS Big Sur, the command line profiles Tool is getting a major version update, jumping to Version 8 from Version 7 deprecating the ability to install configuration profiles using the profiles command .
With the deprecation of the installation feature of the profiles command in macOS Big Sur, Apple has now made it clear that the Apple Mobile Device Management (MDM) protocol is now the only way to silently install configuration profiles on remote macOS machines.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10639/ (Check the video timeline 9Min:40sec)

You need to enable the User initiated enrollment for non DEP devices - Download and install the CA and MDM profile .

@vinu.thankachan Thanks for the info. However, we have enabled the user initiated enrollment for non DEP machines from Settings > Global Management > User Initiated Enrollment

But still our Big Sur machine is asking to Download the QuickAdd package which in-turn is not allowing MDM profile installation for the very well known reason. Any thoughts please?

I would recommend to check with your Apple rep the access to your company/educational Apple Business portal, DEP devices assignment and auto-confirmation with your MDM (Jamf Pro/Jamf Now)

@mhasman The User Initiated Enrolment are separate from DEP and they are not linked to Apple Business Manager. It's something different which I think I'm not able to figure out.

@Pratik please check the below Jamf training and see if this can help you.

https://docs.jamf.com/education-services/jamf-100-course/4.1/Lesson_22__User-Initiated_Enrollment.html

@vinu.thankachan I can confirm that we have followed all UIE guidelines and Jamf documents. What's strange is, even when I enroll Big Sur machines, I'm getting an option to Download & Install QuickAdd package instead of MDM profile. I have exhausted all my resources and finding it tough to get an answer from support team as well :(

I had a BS machine download the QuickApp when UIE was not enabled. As soon as I enabled it, I was able to do the normal /enroll method of downloading the profile and manually installing it.

^ good to know!

@barnesaw If the UIE was not enabled then ideally you should get 'disabled' message when you access /enroll page.

@Pratik Did you find a solution to this? This has started to happen on our devices, it worked as expected previously.

This is happening to us now as well (just out of the blue). It was working perfectly around 1 month ago. I'm lost as UIE is set and everything is as it should be and was when it was working.

Our push notification certificate had expired. Renewing this fixed the issue.

our push cert expired last week, renewing fixed the self-initiated enrollment issues with Big Sur

This fixed my issue, too. Our push cert expired last week; renewing fixed the self-initiated enrollment issues with Big Sur.

New to Jamf but checked the push cert and once renewed, everything was back to normal. Thanks @angryant