Moving MDM in Apple Business Manager

I'm planning an migration from one MDM to another (Intune) and tested that removing the management from a DEP device (old MDM), then move the phone in ABM from the original MDM to Intune, restart the device and enrol using the Intune portal works. It did, the phone is then fully Supervised and managed in Intune.

So my question is, is this a supported method?

Posted on Jan 29, 2021 4:30 AM

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celliott147

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Jan 31, 2021 6:02 AM in response to Community User

Yes. Supervision can be established without MDM. You simply removed an MDM profile and installed a different one. Once a device is supervised, moving between MDMs is fairly easy.

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