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Enrollment of +30 iOS devices to Intune
Hi,
Looking for a piece of advice here :)
A brand new tenant, ready for enrolling +30 iPads. Here's the question:
iPads are company owned, some Apps deployed using Intune. How would you start the enrollment proces?
We have got all iPads in the IT dep. - Should we start them, login with a Apple ID for each iPad, download Company portal and management the devices through this?
Or - any smarter way?
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Unfortunately there are no short cuts unless the devices are Apple DEP enrolled. And even if the devices were DEP enrolled then you would still need to factory reset the devices to move them from one MDM to Intune.
I wish I had better news but one of Intune's weak points is the time it takes to perform mobile enrollment.- Thanks for reply :) - so far so good.
There are no user affinity on the iPads - so I have been playing around with Apple Configurator, and configured Intunes backend to Apple enrollment.
It seems to be pretty straightforward to create the profile in Apple configurator and "Prepare" each device from that Macbook.
Am I on the correct path here:)?The Apple Configurator is one way to go. It depends on whether you need Supervised mode on the devices. The Apple Configurator is extra hassle that you might not need.
If you don't need supervised mode then I would recommend installing the Company portal and enrolling the iPads directly.
You could also try writing an enrolment user guide and get the users to enrol their own devices. In my rollouts so far (I work as a consultant in this field), I usually see a success rate of between 50% and 75% for user self enrolment.
In the long term self enrolment is the right approach because it cuts the IT workload.
Is it preferrable using Apple Configurator??
