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AMA: Powerful Apple device management with Intune
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Thursday, Sep 14, 2023, 09:30 AM PDTEvent details
Get the answers you need to efficiently and effectively manage all things iOS and macOS. Curious about day zero support for upcoming Apple releases? Single sign-on support? Declarative device managem...
Heather_Poulsen
Updated Dec 27, 2024
Martin Behrmann
Sep 07, 2023Copper Contributor
We observe that the user experience of the initial deployment of profiles, scripts, applications when the user receives his new macOS computer and logs in for the first time is rather random. The user does not know what happens and when the device is ready for him to use. To speed things up we even need to force quit the IntuneMDMAgent because it seems to stall from time to time.
How will Microsoft improve this experience?
Char_Cheesman
Sep 14, 2023Bronze Contributor
Thanks for participating in today's AMA: Powerful Apple device management with Intune! For reference, the panel covered this topic at 14:00.
- Martin BehrmannSep 27, 2023Copper ContributorThanks for the reply! Transcripted answer from the video: "Well, I think what you'll see, we have a preview coming up for what's called the "awake config" command. We already have it on iOS. I mean, that's the starting point. So that will allow that policy, and I know Apple now allows apps, and we'll be looking at scripts, as well, to happen before the user exits the Setup Assistant, right? So that's the baseline. Additionally, we're revamping all of ADE. So we're migrating the profiles over to what we're calling "EC V2," or Enrollment Configuration V2, which is similar to our Settings catalog, so all this data-driven UI so we'll be able to build much more faster feature sets. And one of them is to create more control over what different profiles and apps get installed during that window. And so, definitely you'll see more and more of that in the next year about controlling what goes first, what's on there. I think it's going to be critical not just for what you're choosing but what we are putting on you. So, whether it's Platform SSO or even the Authenticator app, you know, we need to have those on the device for part of our enrollment. And so we want to make sure those are there first to enable. And so, yeah, we definitely acknowledge there's some more granular controls we need to add, and the first part of that will be the Awake Config feature set coming out this fall."