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Disable random mac address during EMM enrollment
My company is trying to provision tablets via headwind MDM.
We have no problem on some of our networks, but the location they are being provisioned at at-scale have a strict no-random-mac address rule on their network.
Thus far I have been unable to figure out how to create a QR code that will disable random mac address on the SSID of the network the device connects to when enrolling in our MDM.
Is there a field I am missing? Surely there must be a way to overcome this.
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This isn't a standard setting for most MDM solutions, and I believe it isn't in AMAPI (yet).
What hardware do you have? If you have Samsung, consider using the OEMConfig for that. They have an option build in to disable random mac addresses.
This goes for several manufacturers i guess but only takes part when device is enrolled already.
AFahmy did you look into the Wifi settings when enrolling the device if you can disable MAC randomization there when setting up WiFi settings there already for that specific Wifi?
There's no flag i know of to disable it in normal Wifi QR or QR code (enrollment) afaik.
We have Lenovo tablets which can also use OEMConfig and the like. The issue with all these solutions is they require initially setting up the device and then changing a setting, and then the enrollment proceeds.
We really wanted, given the number of tablets we're going to be provisioning, just scan a QR code to enroll and move on to the next, but it doesn't appear possible as you've said.Not with random mac disabled, yes. Otherwise it does ;)
If you use Samsung devices, it is possible to create a KME enrollment QR code in which it is possible to add a Wi-Fi and force the use of the device's MAC address.
