Managed Apple Accounts and the Wary Mac Admin

Apple Accounts are a complicated topic, with a long history, dating back to 2000. The modern era of Managed Apple Accounts (née Managed Apple IDs) dates from the last 5 years, with major revisions in the last year. Organization-owned Managed Apple Accounts are a great way to enable personal devices to use company data while also preserving your privacy, and your organization’s data integrity and privacy.

This talk, whose slides are below, is the third installment of the Managed Apple Accounts series, with emphasis on new behaviors which are still being implemented by Apple. Some useful links follow:

Apple Platform Deployment Guide

Managed Apple Accounts for Apple Devices

Service access with Managed Apple Accounts

History of Apple Accounts from History of Computing Podcast

Implementing User Enrollment Workflows (Simple)

Implementing User Enrollment Workflows with OAuth 2 (IDP Version)

A Quick Demo Video of a User Sign-in and Enrollment:

And last but not least, my slides: