Shorten enrollment url

[kendalleley]

I am about to enroll about 250 devices using OTA. All will enroll on my network. Is there a way to redirect so that users can type in something like mdm and be automatically redirected to my actual url with the port (https://may.domain.come:8443/enroll)

[daworley]

That would probably be easiest done with DNS.

You can set up a cname/alias record in your DNS server so that "mdm" or whatever redirects to your JSS.

[rob_potvin]

You could also use an url shortener service like tiny url or bit.ly and make a short url

bit.ly/whatever

[jarednichols]

+1 on doing it through DNS.

[mbarlak]

The only problem with using just DNS, is that the user will still need the https://, the 8443 and the enroll path.

Here was my solution which works well in my environment:

I added a virtual IP address to my JSS server, Setup IIS and configured the HTTP redirect option and added a DNS entry pointing to the virtual IP address.

So when my users go to "http://IOSenroll.mycompany.com" they are automatically redirected to "https://jss.mycompany.com:8443/enroll".
This way they don't have to type in https, the port or the enroll path.

Of course our JSS is running in a Windows Server 2008R2 VM but you should be able to do something similar on different platforms.