Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple platform deployment
- What’s new
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- Accessibility payload settings
- Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) 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
- 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
- Dock 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
- Set-up 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 settings
- TV Remote payload settings
- Web Clips payload settings
- Web Content Filter payload settings
- Xsan payload settings
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- Authentication credentials and identity asset settings
- Calendar declarative settings
- 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
- Passcode declarative configuration
- Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
- Screen Sharing declarative configuration
- Service configuration files declarative configuration
- Software Update declarative configuration
- Subscribed Calendars declarative configuration
- Glossary
- Document revision history
- Copyright
Integrate Apple devices with Azure AD
Federated authentication
You use federated authentication to link Apple School Manager, Apple Business Manager or Apple Business Essentials to your instance of Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). As a result, your users can leverage their Azure AD usernames (User Principal Name) and passwords as Managed Apple IDs. They can then use their Azure AD credentials to sign in to iCloud on their assigned iPad or Mac and even to iCloud on the web. Students and employees can also use it to sign in on Shared iPad.
Azure AD is the identity provider (IdP) that authenticates the user for Apple School Manager, Apple Business Manager and Apple Business Essentials and issues authentication tokens. Because Apple School Manager, Apple Business Manager and Apple Business Essentials support Azure AD, other IdPs that connect to Azure AD — like Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) — also work. Federated authentication uses Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to connect Apple School Manager, Apple Business Manager or Apple Business Essentials to Azure AD.
SCIM
SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) allows organisations to provision Managed Apple IDs immediately and to combine Apple School Manager, Apple Business Manager or Apple Business Essentials properties (such as SIS user name and year groups for Apple School Manager and roles) over account data imported from Azure AD. When an organisation imports users with SCIM, the account information is added as read-only in Apple School Manager, Apple Business Manager and Apple Business Essentials until they disconnect from SCIM, in which case the accounts become manual accounts and attributes in these accounts can then be edited. Changes made to accounts in Azure AD sync to Apple School Manager, Apple Business Manager and Apple Business Essentials accounts every 20 to 40 minutes.