Apple School Manager & Intune - App Deployment

[CHiLL]

I have two questions regarding deploying apps via Intune (which we've been doing for years).

 

1) Is ASM limited to the UK app store? I've been asked to install "Socratic by Google" (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/socratic-by-google/id1014164514) onto our IT/Computing iPads, however I cannot find it in ASM. If I look for the app in Intune, I cannot find it in the UK store list, but I can find it in the US store list.

 

2) What is the best way to deploy apps when it comes to ASM and Intune? We've always "purchased" the app (even the free ones) from ASM and waited for them to sync to Intune, the deploy the "iOS volume purchase program app" app. However, we can also manually search for the app in Intune and deploy it as an "iOS store app". We think we've had issues with the latter before, especially with constant sign in prompts, however that was years ago and we can't remember that far back.

[TopKeeper]

Happy to hep you with this,

 

Your first point about US apps, as far as i'm aware you can't get apps from other countries.

 

Regarding setup, for intune you will need to set up 2 tokens in the first instance, one for your apps and the other for you iPad/Apple product deployment. You will also need to create an MDM in ASM for device deployment.

 

Create an enrollment profile for the iPads, once the iPads are enrolled with their new names your ready to push apps to them.

 

To push apps out its a case of creating a security group in azure/entra, I find it a lot easier to set it up as a dynamic group and set a rule so "If enrollment profile is equal to ****"

 

You then find the apps in Intune and add this group to them.

 

If you need me to go into further depth let me know.

[nadeem]

ASM is limited to the app store of the country of registration.