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Aug 22, 2015 10:07 AM in response to oreoreoreore12by MrHoffman,Use Mobile DeviceManagement and Find My iPhone Activation Lock - Apple Support discusses how to manage the activation lock.
The Profile Manager is somewhat simplistic in its capabilities, which means more than a few folks will want or need a third-party MDM.
But — other than the iCloud reset — you can't use any of these tools on an existing and unsupervised device. For that — from the original user — reset and erase the device via iCloud to remove the activation lock, if that's the question here.
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Aug 23, 2015 1:21 AM in response to MrHoffmanby oreoreoreore12,MrHoffman, Thanks for your reply.
>which means more than a few folks will want or need a third-party MDM.
Are you saying that PM does not have the activation code bypass code like 3rd party MDMs?
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Aug 23, 2015 10:25 AM in response to oreoreoreore12by MrHoffman,What I am stating that — if the iOS device is already locked, and if the device is not already supervised — then Profile Manager and Configurator and the other tools won't help unlock it. This statement because more than a few questions that get posted on the forums involve attempting to unlock an existing and locked device. To be unlocked here, the iOS device must already be supervised.
Here is the section of the Profile Manager overview that mentions temporarily resetting the PIN.
For managing iOS devices in general and comparisons of Profile Manager and third-party MDM packages, here is an older discussion and here is a feature comparison matrix, and there's also the Mac Enterprise Mailing list (and its large archive) — which be good resources for using and deploying iOS and Mac OS X. For school iOS deployments and similar, see the archives of Fraser Speirs for some details.
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Aug 23, 2015 4:47 PM in response to MrHoffmanby oreoreoreore12,This is not about "locking the device" or "unlocking the device". This is about how to manage "Activation lock" for the devices managed (already) by Profile manager.
Q. Can Profile manager generate a bypass code of the device already been supervised by profile manager?
Is the question here. And how if it is possible.
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