Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple Platform Deployment
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- Declarative status reports
- Declarative app configuration
- Authentication credentials and identity asset declaration
- Background task management declarative
- Calendar declarative configuration
- Certificates declarative configuration
- Contacts declarative configuration
- Exchange declarative configuration
- Google Accounts declarative configuration
- LDAP declarative configuration
- Legacy interactive profile declarative configuration
- Legacy profile declarative configuration
- Mail declarative configuration
- Maths and Calculator app declarative configuration
- Managed Migration Assistant declarative configuration
- Passcode declarative configuration
- Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
- Safari browsing management declarative configuration
- Safari extensions management declarative configuration
- Screen Sharing declarative configuration
- Service configuration files declarative configuration
- Software Update declarative configuration
- Software Update settings declarative configuration
- Storage management declarative configuration
- Subscribed Calendars declarative configuration
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- Accessibility payload settings
- Active Directory Certificate payload settings
- AirPlay payload settings
- AirPlay Security payload settings
- AirPrint payload settings
- App Lock payload settings
- Associated Domains payload settings
- Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) payload settings
- Autonomous Single App Mode payload settings
- Calendar payload settings
- Mobile payload settings
- Mobile Private Network payload settings
- Certificate Preference payload settings
- Certificate Revocation payload settings
- Certificate Transparency payload settings
- Certificates payload settings
- Conference Room Display payload settings
- Contacts payload settings
- Content Caching payload settings
- Directory Service payload settings
- DNS Proxy payload settings
- DNS Settings payload settings
- Fonts payload settings
- Domains payload settings
- Energy Saver payload settings
- Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) payload settings
- Exchange Web Services (EWS) payload settings
- Extensible Single Sign-on payload settings
- Extensible Single Sign-on Kerberos payload settings
- Extensions payload settings
- FileVault payload settings
- Finder payload settings
- Firewall payload settings
- Fonts payload settings
- Global HTTP Proxy payload settings
- Google Accounts payload settings
- Home Screen Layout payload settings
- Identification payload settings
- Identity Preference payload settings
- Kernel Extension Policy payload settings
- LDAP payload settings
- Lights Out Management payload settings
- Lock Screen Message payload settings
- Login Window payload settings
- Managed Login Items payload settings
- Mail payload settings
- Network Usage Rules payload settings
- Notifications payload settings
- Parental Controls payload settings
- Passcode payload settings
- Printing payload settings
- Privacy Preferences Policy Control payload settings
- Relay payload settings
- SCEP payload settings
- Security payload settings
- Setup Assistant payload settings
- Single Sign-on payload settings
- Smart Card payload settings
- Subscribed Calendars payload settings
- System Extensions payload settings
- System Migration payload settings
- Time Machine payload specifics
- TV Remote payload settings
- Web Clips payload settings
- Web Content Filter payload settings
- LDAP payload settings
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- Glossary
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- Copyright and trademarks
Integrate Apple devices with Microsoft Entra ID
Federated authentication
Apple School Manager and Apple Business integrate with Microsoft Entra ID Open ID Connect (OIDC) global service (login.microsoftonline.com) using federated authentication, allowing users to use their existing usernames and passwords. As a result, your users can leverage their Microsoft Entra ID username (generally, their email address) and password as a Managed Apple Account. They can then use those credentials to sign in to their assigned iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Vision Pro, and to Shared iPad. After they’ve signed in to one of those devices, they can then also sign in to iCloud on the web.
Note: Integration with national clouds isn’t currently supported.
OIDC
OIDC (OpenID Connect) allows organisations to provision Managed Apple Accounts immediately, and to combine Apple School Manager or Apple Business properties (such as SIS username and year groups for Apple School Manager and roles) over account data imported from Microsoft Entra ID. When an organisation imports users with OIDC, the account information is added as read-only in Apple School Manager and Apple Business until they disconnect from OIDC, in which case, the accounts become manual accounts and attributes in these accounts can then be edited. Changes made to accounts in Microsoft Entra ID sync to Apple School Manager and Apple Business accounts every 20 to 40 minutes.