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Adding devices into Apple Business Manager

Hi,


How can we add devices we have already purchased in to Apple Business Manager? We have roughly 100 iPhones and 30 iPads we have purchased either through EE Business or the channel, neither support ABM.


We devices are all around the world, we do not have access to them to import using ACM and we need to import them into ABM. We are using InTune as our MDM. How do we import them?

Posted on Nov 9, 2021 10:01 AM

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Posted on Nov 9, 2021 1:33 PM

You can't. There are 2 ways to add devices to ABM.

  1. Purchase through a reseller who supports adding the devices. You will need their reseller ID and they will need your customer ID.
  2. Use Apple Configurator 2 to add devices manually (only for iOS/iPadOS/tvOS at this time).


You'll need to physically touch the devices, get the reseller to add them, return the devices, or deal with them not being in ABM.

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Nov 9, 2021 1:33 PM in response to kwolton7

You can't. There are 2 ways to add devices to ABM.

  1. Purchase through a reseller who supports adding the devices. You will need their reseller ID and they will need your customer ID.
  2. Use Apple Configurator 2 to add devices manually (only for iOS/iPadOS/tvOS at this time).


You'll need to physically touch the devices, get the reseller to add them, return the devices, or deal with them not being in ABM.

Nov 12, 2021 4:38 AM in response to celliott147

I agree, although you would have thought there would be nice to be able to add devices that do not come from an Apple reseller, such as through the channel. Your average IT company will not be able to meet the requirements for being an Apple reseller. You would think there would be a mechanism to upload serial numbers and verify on the phones or something.

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