Configure organisational units in Apple Business
Overview
When you sign up for Apple Business, the first organisational unit is automatically created and reflects your organisation name. As you expand your use to other locations or offices, you can add more organisational units and edit their information. Additional organisational units can mirror physical locations or an organisational structure. Apps and books can then be provisioned to specific organisational units. User with specific roles can be assigned to organisational units.
Organisational units, content tokens and app assignments
If you didn’t make any app assignments using your primary organisational unit content token before you turned on built-in device management, your primary organisational unit becomes reserved. The token does not appear, so you can’t link to an external device management service to distribute apps.
If you did make existing app assignments using your primary organisational unit content token before you subscribed to Apple Business, a new organisational unit is created, named Apple Business. To view your apps and assign them from Blueprints, select the Apple Business organisational unit when obtaining licences from the Apps and Books Store.
View organisational unit information
In Apple Business, sign in with a user whose role has permissions to create, edit and delete organisational units.
To view roles and permissions, see Intro to roles and permissions.
In your browser, choose Settings > Organisational Units.
Select an organisational unit view information about it.
Add an organisational unit
You can add organisational units. This is useful if you’re managing more than one location or department for your organisation.
In Apple Business, sign in with a user whose role has permissions to create, edit and delete organisational units.
To view roles and permissions, see Intro to roles and permissions.
In your browser, choose Settings > Organisational Units.
Select Add, enter the name for the organisational unit and optionally add a description.
Select Done.
If necessary, add users, user groups or app to the organisation unit.
Edit an organisational unit
You can edit information about any organisational unit except the initial one.
In Apple Business, sign in with a user whose role has permissions to create, edit and delete organisational units.
To view roles and permissions, see Intro to roles and permissions.
In your browser, choose Settings > Organisational Units.
Select an organisational unit, then select More
.Edit the name or description, then select Update.
Delete an organisational unit
You can delete a manually created organisational unit. Before you do, accounts and app and book licences need to be transferred to another location.
In Apple Business, sign in with a user whose role has permissions to create, edit and delete organisational units.
To view roles and permissions, see Intro to roles and permissions.
In your browser, choose Settings > Organisational Units.
Select an organisational unit, then select More
.Select Delete.
Make sure you want to delete the organisational unit. This action can’t be undone.
Select Delete.