Creating a PreStage Enrollment
A PreStage enrollment allows you to store enrollment and Mac computer setup settings in Jamf Pro and use them to enroll new Mac computers with Jamf Pro. This reduces the amount of time and interaction it takes to prepare Mac computers for use.
To create a PreStage Enrollment that uses an Enrollment Customization and deploys Jamf Connect, you must add the following to your PreStage Enrollment:
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A Enrollment Customizations configuration
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The Jamf Connect Login installer package
Note: Installer packages must be stored at a cloud-based HTTPS distribution point.
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A Jamf Connect Login configuration profile
Configuring a Computer PreStage Enrollment
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In Jamf Pro, click Computers at the top of the page.
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Click PreStage Enrollments.
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Click New.
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Configure the following PreStage Enrollment payloads:
Payload
Setting
General
Add your pre-configured Enrollment Customization configuration.
Account Settings
Select Skip Account Creation. Jamf Connect Login will create a local user account on the computer.
Note: Jamf Connect does not create an MDM-enabled local user account. For more information, see the Enabling MDM for Local User Accounts Knowledge Base article.
Confguration Profiles
Select the configuration profiles you previously created for Jamf Connect.
Enrollment Packages
Select the customized Jamf Connect package you previously uploaded to your Jamf Pro cloud distribution point.
Note: If using Jamf Pro 10.19 or later, you can include multiple packages. Packages with higher priority install first. Multiple packages with the same priority install in alphabetical order based on the package name.
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Click the Scope tab and configure the scope. The computers listed on the Scope tab are the computers that are associated with Automated Device Enrollment (formerly DEP) via the server token file (.p7m) you downloaded from Apple. You can use the Select All button to add all associated computers to the scope. This adds all computers associated with Automated Device Enrollment via the server token file regardless of any results that have been filtered using the Filter Results search field. The Unselect All button removes all associated computers from the scope.
Note: If you want to automatically add computers to the scope as they become associated with the Automated Device Enrollment instance, select the Automatically assign new devices checkbox in the General payload.
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Click Save.
Computers in the scope will now be enrolled using the PreStage enrollment.
Related Information
For related information, see the Computer PreStage Enrollments section in the Jamf Pro Administrator's Guide.