Chromebook Deprovisioning

[gumbygaz]

Anybody help confirm what I'm doing is correct. Our 6th form can buy Chromebooks through us for the year, we put them on the google management and all is well for the year/s they're here.

Come them leaving, I deprovision them in the system (retiring them from fleet option) so they can use them at Uni etc. Is there anything else I need to be telling them to do, should I be informing them they need to do a factory reset/wipe on them to clear any lingering policies?

 

Thanks

[gumbygaz]

For info got a response from Google. I think I'd been missing the Force re-enrollment part.

 

"One important thing to keep in mind is if you're planning to replace the devices you're deprovisioning with the same model devices. If you're simply retiring the old devices and plan to purchase different model devices as replacement, you'll have to purchase new licenses with them.

If you're planning to purchase the same model devices, you can re-use the licenses and in order to be able to do this, you have to select "Same model replacement" when deprovisioning the old units. More about the different deprovisioning reasons you can see in the following Help Center article https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3523633?hl=en

 

Also, once you deprovision the devices, you may need to wipe them in order to completely free them from the enrollment. More about the wipe process you can see in the following Help Center article https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/1360642?hl=en

In some cases the devices are still partially kept tied to the domain, even after deprovisioning, by the Force re-enrollment policy. You can, just in case, move the retired devices in a separate OU and disable FRE for them. More about this you can see in the following Help Center article https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6352858?hl=en

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