Authentication & Assignment Options

As mentioned, Mosyle is organized to make management and the configuration of devices as intuitive as possible, allowing you to assign configurations based on the user who is using the device, the grade level or class the assigned user is associated with, or the shared device group or dynamic device group the device belongs to.

Since configurations can be assigned to specific users, it's important users are assigned or associated with the specific device, or devices, they use. Assignment of devices can be fully automated so that students or teachers simply authenticate with their school credentials and Mosyle will automatically pair them with the device. In order to do this, users must be imported into Mosyle.

An ideal zero-touch deployment flow would include users imported into Mosyle and devices enrolled using Automated Device Enrollment, along with prompting users for authentication during the enrollment in order to complete the device assignment. From there, management profiles and applications that are assigned to the user will automatically be deployed upon device enrollment. This enrollment example is dependent on the user completing the device enrollment.

If the IT team or a provisioning service will be enrolling devices, user authentication during enrollment may not be ideal. Instead, device assignment can be completed by students or teachers authenticating in the Mosyle Manager app on iOS/iPadOS or via a login event on macOS, either through the native macOS login window or Mosyle Auth.