Migrate content tokens to Apple Business
In Apps and Books, there are two types of tokens associated with app and book licenses.
Legacy tokens
Legacy tokens are user-based tokens from the legacy that contain assigned licences after migrating to Apps and Books to a non-unique location. That user can do only the following:
Download the legacy token and upload it into their device management service.
Assign and reassign apps they bought to users and devices using their device management service.
Assign books they bought to users using their device management service.
Note: Some Apple Books content isn’t available in certain countries or regions. To learn whether certain Apple Books content is available in your country or region, see the Apple Support article Availability of Apple programs and payment methods for education and business.
Content tokens for each organisational unit
Users whose role has permissions to get licences for apps and books can download a content token for organisational units where they also have permissions and they can upload that token to their device management service to assign books and to assign and reassign apps. Make sure your organisation uploads organisational unit tokens for all organisational units where you made purchases or transfers in Apps and Books.
Before you start managing content tokens, check with your device management service developer to learn which solution they support:
A single user-based content token
A single organisational unit-based content token
Multiple organisational unit-based content tokens
Migration planning
To get started migrating, users whose role has permissions to get licences for apps and books with personal token libraries need to migrate their licences to an organisational unit. For the best migration experience, organisations need to ensure that during the initial migration to Apps and Books, those users are mapped to a unique organisational unit that hasn’t yet been used. This allows all content to migrate properly. It’s recommended that you move all of those users at the same time. This can be done by each user or by any user with the role of Organisation Administrator with access to all accounts.
Note: If a user whose role has permissions to get licences for apps and books has VPP credit associated with it, the credit remains associated with that user. VPP credit isn’t transferred to the chosen organisational unit. See Purchase VPP credit.
Assigned licenses versus unassigned licenses
After migration, licences are associated with the organisational unit they migrated to rather than with the purchaser’s legacy token. If a user whose role has permissions to get licences for apps and books migrates to an organisational unit that already has licences in it, only their unassigned licences are moved to the organisational unit during initial migration. (This process avoids any disruption to licence assignments in device management.) Assigned licences remain associated with the purchaser’s legacy token. After these licences are unassigned in device management, they can be moved to another organisational unit.