Managing Apple TV Devices

By integrating your Apple TV's into the SyAM Mobile Device Management they will be tracked and inventoried automatically along with your other iOS devices.

Enrolling Apple TV

As there is no Safari browser on the Apple TV you must enroll the device by using Apple Configurator 2.0

First you need to copy the MDM Trusted Root Certificate from your MDM Server and save it on the MAC. See Backing up MDM Server Certificates

Open up Apple Configurator and select File - New Profile

Give the profile a name

Select Certificates on the let hand menu - click Configure - Now select the MDM Trusted Root Certificate file and press done

Save the Profile

From the MAC open up a web browser and enter the URL used for MDM Device enrollment

Enter the  user name and password for the group setup for the Apple TVs

Save the enrollment profile file.

Join the Apple TV to the MAC running Apple Configurator 2.0 with the USB cable.

Once the Apple TV Device is shown on the user interface you can Click on Add Profiles

Select the profile that you created which contains the MDM Trusted Root Certificate

Next Add the Profile that you downloaded for enrolling into your MDM Server.

Once both profiles have been added the Apple TV Device will be enrolled and managed by your MDM Server.

The Apple TV Device will now appear in the MDM group you enrolled it into

The Apple TV Device will automatically update the Asset Database

Apple TV Information

Currently the Apple TV doesn't support the list of Applications installed

Support for Profiles

You can deploy WiFi Profiles to Apple TV Devices

App Deployment

Currently there is no support for deploying Apps to the Apple TV device