• lud
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    10 months ago

    Fyi: At least with windows, you can get devices which are pre configured straight from the manufacturer. It’s called Autopilot (and it’s awesome).

    It’s fairly obvious it’s configured since you have to login to a corporate MS account so you don’t have to worry about it, but it’s just neat.

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      10 months ago

      Receiving a Windows Autopilot device direct from the manufacturer or vendor in no way prevents your employer from installing whatever software they want on the device, of course. I can’t speak for the Apple device but I would imagine there are ways to remotely manage the device even there - requiring the employee to sign in to Jamf, perhaps.

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        10 months ago

        That was my point precisely.

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          10 months ago

          My apologies. I felt a little like you were agreeing with the previous commenter (“no nefarious software”) when you were talking about Autopilot, and I thought it worth pointing out that your employer certainly can install “nefarious” things even if they didn’t directly provision the device for you.

          Of course I know that a lot of work still goes into setting up Intune so that your Autopilot devices are fit for use!

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        10 months ago

        You can buy a MacBook and have it preregistered with your apple business account. From there the first run will auto add it to jamf and apply policies.