Apple Platform Deployment
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple platform deployment
- What’s new
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- Accessibility 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
- Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) 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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- Declarative app configuration settings
- 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
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- Document revision history
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Set up local macOS accounts
You can configure a local administrator account on Mac computers using mobile device management (MDM) during Automated Device Enrolment through Apple School Manager, Apple Business Manager or Apple Business Essentials. When the account is configured in your MDM solution, the user proceeds through the account set-up portion of the macOS Set-Up Assistant and the behaviour depends on the options selected. Mac account set-up options are as follows:
Create an administrator account: The user creates an administrator account on the Mac.
Create a standard account: The user creates a standard account on the Mac. You must also create a managed administrator account.
No option to create an account: The user doesn’t create any account using Set-up Assistant. You must also create a managed administrator account. The user logs in using a network account or another account created outside of Set-up Assistant.
The full name or username for the default account (macOS 10.15 or later): Fills the local account’s full name or username in Set-Up Assistant when the initial account is being created. The user can override these values if they wish.
Lock the default account’s full name or username (macOS 10.15 or later): The local account is created using the full name or username provided by the MDM solution. The user can’t override the values.
If you create a managed administrator account, you can hide that account in the Users & Groups pane in System Settings (for macOS 13 or later) or in System Preferences (for macOS 12.0.1 or earlier) so that users of a Mac don’t interfere with the managed administrator account.
Note: Unlike passwords for regular administrator accounts, passwords for managed administrator accounts can be changed remotely using your MDM solution. However, if the account becomes secure token–enabled, the change from MDM updates the login password and not the secure token password.