Profile Manager enrollment, duplicate serial numbers, deploystudio

I possible have a work around for this issue. It is something in the Admin Account ~/Library Folder. Delete all files ~/Library once the image is restored using terminal and it will let you register it through profile manager. We are using El-Cap Profile Manager and a Sierra image. I will try and find which file it is but so far have isolated it to below the ~/Library/Preferences folder.

Having the same issue except we are going to the My Devices website and enrolling. 1 Macbook works fine, any other we try says "already enrolled" and takes the serial number of the 1st Mac. This is a show stopper.

edit: spelling

So far my limited testing is showing that 10.7 Macs are NOT doing this, but the 10.8 Macs are. But I only have 4 Macs to test with right now.

Ok, after more testing here is what I'm seeing....

2 users: A and B

2 10.8.2 Macs: X and Y

Test 1

Login to both X and Y as the local Admin user. Login to //server/MyDevices as user A

On Mac X

• Install Trust Profile
• Enroll Mac X
• All is fine

On Mac Y

• Install TrustProfile
• Enroll Mac Y
• Mac X stays as the only device listed in //Mydevics BUT gets Mac Y's serial number.

Test 2

Login to both X and Y as the local Admin user. Login to //server/MyDevices as user B on X and user A on Y

On Mac X (as user B)

• Install Trust Profile
• Enroll Mac X
• Everything is fine

On Mac Y (as user A)

• Install Trust profile
• Immediately see Mac X on User B's screen disappear.
• No profiles show on the Mac, but User A's //Mydevices now shows Mac X with Mac Y's serial number.

Do not see this with 10.7 yet.

So we've mostly figured it out.

It seems the enrollment profile that the device gets from My Devices is somehow different than the enrollment profile you can download from Profile Manager.

If I download the Trust and Enollment profiles from Profile Manager and run from each Mac they work great. If I login to My Devices and enroll we get the previous issue. Not a huge deal for us as we have Deploy Studio and can just netboot each Mac and run a workflow that can install the 2 profiles.

But it would have been nice to know about before hand.

You have to add them to WGM manually since at least 10.8 maybe 10.7.

You need to go to Computers, +add, and type the computer name and MAC address and Save.

If you have too many cumputers, you can import lists exported from Apple Remote Desktop.

Once in Computers, you can go to a Computer List and add the computer.

I guess I didn't realize that Profile Manager was tied to OpenDirectory. If I check WGM on the server, I don't see the computers that I added to Profile Manager in WGM on the same server and vis versa.

Otherwise, I did figure out that computers don't show in the Bonjour list in 10.8 WGM anymore to add them. I had to manually add them which is an huge pain.

I just wanted to say I've got exactly the same problem with the latest version of OS-X and Server/Profile Manager (10.10.1 and Server 4.0.3 as at January 2015).

I have used DeployStudio to clone an idealised lab Mac to a number of others in a school lab.

Workstations (Mac Minis running 10.10.1) all have unique computer names as defined in the sharing panel and are bound to AD and an OD Server.

The OD Server (also Yosemite 10.10.1) also runs Profile Manager.

When I attempt to enrol any Mac to Profile Manager via http://<servername>/mydevices, then suddenly ALL the macs in the lab report that they are enrolled for management and present the SAME SERIAL NUMBER in the web interface, which is the serial number of the Mini from which the image was made.

Meanwhile, in the Profile Manager management interface, only one device shows up as under management. Only the first device ends up being managed, and the others cannot be enrolled because they are sure that they are already.

I was working from the assumption that something nasty in my cloned image was tangling something up - something that made the server think that each Mac was the same and was not being reset to make each mac distinct. The solution in that case is to remove the offending parameter that gives each Mac the "serial" (as far as PM sees) of the first one which enrols.

I am curious about your suggested fix but can't see any other location from which to download a Enrolment profile. The /mydevices page is the only way I can see.

Can you help? How did you eventually lick this?

http://www.deploystudio.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?pid=25871#p25871

I can confirm, Delete the ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage folder.