Company Portal is the app that lets you, as an employee of your company, securely access those resources. Before you can use this app, make sure your IT admin has set up your work account. Your company must also have a subscription to Microsoft Intune.
Engage with businesses and educational institutions to design and build customized apps that meet the unique needs of their organization. With Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager, you can privately and securely distribute to specific partners, clients, franchisees. And you can also distribute proprietary apps to your internal employees.
How It Works
Organizations that you identify in App Store Connect will see your app and be able to download it in the Apps and Books section of Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager. You can offer custom apps for free or at any price tier you choose. Identify the organizations who can download your app and set a release date in App Store Connect.
App Store Connect
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App Store Connect lets you distribute your app privately in up to 69 regions. Upload your app for review and select the Custom App Distribution option. If your app contains sensitive data, provide sample data and authentication for our review team. Make sure your tax and banking information is set up so that Apple can process payments for you. You’ll also be able to invite testers to beta test your app before distribution.
Apple Business Manager
Organizations can enroll as an Apple Business to purchase and distribute content and automate device deployment using Apple Business Manager. The organizations that you identify can see your app and purchase it in the Content section of Apple Business Manager and seamlessly distribute it through Mobile Device Management. Alternatively, organizations can choose to provide redemption codes to authorized users to download the app on the App Store.
Apple School Manager
Meet the unique needs of educational institutions by privately offering apps you’ve customized just for them. Organizations that you identify in App Store Connect will see the app and be able to purchase it in volume on Apple School Manager, a service that lets educational institutions buy content, configure automatic device enrollment, and create accounts for students and staff. Educational institutions can also use this feature to distribute proprietary apps for internal use.
Creating Custom Apps
Designing and developing a custom version of your app for an organization allows you to maintain the code and retain your intellectual property rights. You can offer:
- Apps for iPhone, iPad, or Mac
- A tailored look and feel, such as company logo or branding
- Specific functionality for a business process or workflow
- Special configuration for IT environments
- Security features for sensitive or private company data
- Custom features for partners, clients, dealers, or franchises
- Unique features for employees within your organization
Before directing users to register their computers with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), it is necessary to deploy the Company Portal app from Microsoft to computers.
Deploying the Company Portal app involves the following steps:
Download the Company Portal app from Microsoft
Upload the Company Portal app to Jamf Pro as a package
(Optional) Identify computers that do not have the Company Portal app installed
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Deploy the Company Portal app to computers
On a Mac computer, download the current version of the Company Portal app for macOS from the Microsoft website.
Important: Do not install it; you need a copy of the app to upload to Jamf Pro.
The CompanyPortal_Installer.pkg file can be downloaded from: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=862280
Upload the Company Portal app to a distribution point in Jamf Pro.
In Jamf Pro, navigate to Settings > Computer Management > Packages.
Create a new package that includes the Company Portal app and click Save.
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In Jamf Pro, navigate to Computers > Smart Computer Groups.
Create a new smart group that identifies computers that do not have the Company Portal.app from Microsoft installed.
Click Save.
In Jamf Pro, navigate to Computers > Policies and create a policy that deploys the Company Portal app to users.
Use the General payload to configure the following settings:
For Trigger, select 'Enrollment Complete' and 'Recurring Check-in'.
For Execution Frequency, select 'Once per computer'.
Select the Packages payload, and then click Configure.
Click Add for the package with the Company Portal app.
Configure the settings for the package.
Specify a distribution point for computers to download the package from.
Click the Scope tab to specify computers on which the Company Portal app should be installed.You may also use the smart computer group created in step 3.
Click Save.
Note: The policy runs on computers in the scope the next time they check in with Jamf Pro and meet the criteria in the General payload.
Managing Packages
Find out how to create a package and upload a file to a distribution point in Jamf Pro.
Smart Computer Groups
Find out how to create smart groups in Jamf Pro.