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It would be great if answers to these questions were posted here. I understand the concept and the fact they were answered in the room but, nevertheless, it would make this a lot more meaningful.
Great session this afternoon. Congratulations!!!

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Our institution was recently merged with another and this has meant that we have 2 Apple School Managers. We would like to transfer app licenses from one to another.  Is it possible to transfer paid-for apps purchased from one VPP account to another VPP account?

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What is the future of MacOS server and apple profile manager and apple remote desktop? For companies that may have complicated purchase processes and approvals can we rely on Apples own solutions until we can officially proceed on JAMF or similar?

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When using the --eraseinstall command to remotely initiate an OS upgrade, is there any way to pass the existing name of the Mac to the new OS install? We name all our Macs specifically so they drop into various Jamf smart groups, so this would be very useful.

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Is Apple Professional Development training available?

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Will previous version OS installers remain available somewhere? Will the App Store provide full OS installers (not stubs)?

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Note to continue the Operating System update cycle conversation in the Round Table

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Zero touch when the only available network is WPA Enterprise.. certificate issues?

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How would Jamf Connect fit in to federated authentication via ASM?

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Apple Care for Business?

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AppleSeed for IT updates

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A program where customers can test pre-release software products in order to provide Apple with real-world quality and usability feedback.

Looking for the Apple Beta Software Program?

Invitation Only Program

With your Invitation, this program gives you a first look at new and upcoming software while giving you the ability to provide feedback directly into engineering.

Help Apple

We want to collect feedback from our customers to improve the overall quality of our products. With your help, we can test in many different environments. Your feedback about your experience with our products will impact Apple's future success.

Expectations

Confidentiality.
Use of pre-release software is strictly confidential. All potential participants are required to sign a Customer Seed and Confidentiality Agreement before being accepted into the program.
Active Participation.
We strongly urge you to test the software and require your feedback. A variety of reporting tools are offered providing engineering with functional data. Failure to actively participate may disqualify you from future seeding programs.

Requirements

Complete a profile.

We need to collect some background information about you, your interests, and your computing environment to select the right people for the project.

Customer Seed and Confidentiality Agreement.

Pre-release software is considered Apple confidential property and all participants must view and acknowledge the agreement in order to be considered.

Be selected.

We select participants for specific product seeds based on the profile information you provide and the needs of the product engineering team. We can not guarantee that you will be selected to test a particular software product.

Provide Apple with your feedback.

We expect to hear about your experience with the product. You will be asked to complete engineering questionnaires, fill out bug reports, enhancement requests, and participate in online discussion.

More Questions?

If you have more questions, please visit the FAQ

If you're interested in developing with beta software, visit the Apple Developer website.

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A program where customers can test pre-release software products in order to provide Apple with real-world quality and usability feedback. Looking for the Apple Beta Software Program? With your Invitation, this program gives you a first look at new and upcoming software while giving you the ability to provide feedback directly into engineering.

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Groupcall and Apple School Manager

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Cut the time and cost of implementing and amount of time

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Apple Federation with Azure

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You use federated authentication to link Apple School Manager to your instance of Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD). As a result, your users can leverage their Microsoft Azure AD usernames and passwords as Managed Apple IDs. They can then use their Microsoft Azure AD credentials to sign in to their assigned iPad or Mac and even iCloud on the web. Students can also use it to sign in on a Shared iPad.

Only domains that have not been claimed by another institution can be added.

Important: Federated authentication requires that a user's UserPrincipalName match their email address. UserPrincipalName aliases are not supported.

To use federated authentication with Apple School Manager, your Apple devices must meet the following requirements:

macOS 10.13.4 or later

iOS 11.3 or later

Microsoft Azure AD is the Identity Provider (IdP), which contains the usernames and passwords for the accounts you want to use with Apple School Manager. Federated authentication uses Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to connect Apple School Manager to Microsoft Azure AD.

There are three main scenarios where you might use federated authentication:

Federated authentication only

When you link to Microsoft Azure AD, Managed Apple IDs are created for users when they simply sign in with the same username and password they use with Microsoft Azure AD services. If a user is removed from Microsoft Azure AD, that user can be removed from Apple School Manager.

Federated authentication with users from other sources

When you link to Microsoft Azure AD, Managed Apple IDs are automatically created for users, and they simply sign in with their current email address as their Managed Apple ID.

You then link to your SIS or upload files with SFTP. All information, such as classes and rosters, is matched against users from your Microsoft Azure AD service. If a user is removed from Microsoft Azure AD, that user must be deactivated in Apple School Manager by an account with permissions to change the status of users.

Federated authentication and Shared iPad

If the user already exists, you must reset their passcode. See Reset Shared iPad passcodes.

If the user does not already exist, they will be redirected to sign in using the Microsoft Azure AD screen. Once the user successfully authenticates, they must create a Shared iPad passcode.

When you use federated authentication with Shared iPad, the sign-in process is different depending on whether the user already exists in Apple School Manager.

The default passcode policy is Standard (8 or more letter and numbers) and can be changed. See Password policy scenarios in Apple School Manager. If the user forgets their passcode, you must use the Reset Shared iPad Passcode in Apple School Manager.

Note: Users can't sign in to icloud.com unless they first sign in on their Apple device associated with Apple School Manager.

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Intro to federated authentication with Apple School Manager

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You use federated authentication to link Apple School Manager to your instance of Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD). As a result, your users can leverage their Microsoft Azure AD usernames and passwords as Managed Apple IDs. They can then use their Microsoft Azure AD credentials to sign in to their assigned iPad or Mac and even iCloud on the web.

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Any news on whether Microsoft Office and/or Adobe will support new SSO extension?

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Apple Developer Site

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There's never been a better time to develop for Apple platforms.

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Ability to brand Catalina (logon screen image)

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Album artwork on lock screen!!!

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Note: Classroom and Schoolwork require Managed Apple IDs

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Apple Classroom Info here:

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Current workflows work very well for devices with an end user. For lab-type deployments the current functionality is lacking. Would like to be able to to deploy macOS via DEP without running through Setup Assistant by pre-configuring  in Jamf Pre-Stage or equivalent.

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What is the difference between Apple School Manager and Apple Business Manager? Do I need both?

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No more deploy.apple.com as everything migrates to school.apple.com 1st December 2019

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Deployment Programmes will be moving on 1 December.

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JAMF and SNOW (software asset management software) integration ?

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DEP over 802.1x and bind to AD

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What are essential elements for a robust AUP?

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Tracking devices centrally

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Network home folders: dead? Best practices for shared-use environments

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DEPNotify Catalina support?

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database of where all apple devices in university were purchased - for warranty

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JAMF support via Academia or direct with JAMF? Best practice?

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MDM solutions for personally owned devices and corporate managed devices