Enrolling macOS Devices Using a Third-Party Certificate

Before you begin

If the certificates bound to "Deployment Server Extensions and Web Console" and "macOS Profile Signing" are not trusted third-party certificates and the setting "Require Trust Profile During Enrollment" is turned on, follow the instructions of Enrolling macOS Devices Using a SOTI MobiControl Certificate.

You must have created an add devices rule that establishes enrollment settings before you can complete this procedure.

Note: Choose the user account that you use to enroll to SOTI MobiControl carefully. Certain configuration settings can be applied to either the entire device, irrespective of user account, or solely to the enrollment user account.

About this task

To enroll your macOS devices using the Enrollment Web Service:

Procedure

  1. On the Apple tab, select the Rules tab.
  2. Select the add devices rule that you want to use for enrolling macOS devices and make sure its details are displayed in the Information section. Make a note of the Enrollment URL.
  3. On your macOS device, open Safari and enter the Enrollment URL in the address bar.
  4. If the add devices rule was configured with LDAP, enter the applicable credentials.
  5. Click Step 1 to download the SOTI MobiControl Device Enrollment Profile. Click Allow and then Install and then Install again to install the SOTI MobiControl device enrollment profile.
    The macOS Profile Manager application will open to continue the installation of the SOTI MobiControl Trust and Management profiles.
  6. The installation process of the SOTI MobiControl Device Enrollment Profile includes several automatic steps that require no user interaction. Once the profile has finished installing on your device, click Done.

Results

You will be returned to the Safari browser where you can confirm the successful enrollment of your device.