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Alberto Varona
Alberto Varona
Cloud Solution Architect
Published Jan 24, 2024
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Apple allows you to buy multiple licenses for an app intended for use within your organization on iOS/iPadOS and macOS devices through Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager. Afterward, you can sync your volume purchase details with Microsoft Intune and monitor the usage of the apps you've purchased in bulk.
Apple Volume Purchase Program (VPP) tokens play a crucial role in establishing a link between Microsoft Intune and the Apple VPP service. This connection empowers administrators to deploy apps to devices and allocate licenses to users. When it comes to renewing these tokens in Microsoft Intune, administrators usually follow a process involving accessing the Apple VPP portal, creating a new VPP token, and subsequently updating the token within the Intune console.
Download Apple VPP Tokens from Apple Business Manager
Ensuring the timely renewal of these tokens is crucial for maintaining uninterrupted access and management of your Apple VPP apps and licenses. This preservation contributes to a positive user experience within your organization.
To renew an Apple Business Manager location token (Apple VPP token), you can follow the process of downloading the token from Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager again. Subsequently, update the existing token in Microsoft Intune with the newly downloaded one.
Navigate to Payments and Billing > Apps and Books > Content Tokens. In this section, you will find the available tokens for download. Simply click on the Download button, and the token will be automatically downloaded.
Renew Apple VPP Tokens in Microsoft Intune
To renew Apple VPP tokens in Microsoft Intune Admin center, follow these steps:
3. Navigate to Apple VPP Tokens node, here, you can configure and create Apple VPP tokens or update existing tokens.
4. Select the VPP token you are renewing.
The recommended method for renewing the VPP token is to select the existing token or an expired one and upload the new token. It's crucial to note that deleting the existing tokens and generating a new token could result in the loss of all previous assignments of VPP apps and the configurations associated with managed apps.
5. In the Apple VPP Token Properties, clickEditon the Basics category. Here you will get various options to control the apps or account as well inside the settings.
6. On the Basics tab, In the VPP token file, Select the downloaded .vpptoken file to upload, and then click on Review + save to save your changes.
7. After uploading the new token, proceed to save your changes. A notification message will then appear, indicating that the Apple tokens have been successfully saved.
Within the Apple VPP Tokens section, you can view the expiration date for VPP tokens along with other details. The validity of the token is extended for an additional year.
Additional information
Apple provides direct assistance to create and renew VPP tokens. For more information, see Distribute content to your users with the Volume Purchase Program (VPP) as part of Apple's documentation.
If assigned to external MDM is indicated in Intune, then you (the admin) must remove the VPP token from the 3rd party MDM before using the VPP token in Intune.
If status is Duplicate for a token, then multiple tokens with the same Token Location have been uploaded. Remove the duplicate token to begin syncing the token again. You can still assign and revoke licenses for tokens that are marked as duplicate. However, licenses for new apps and books purchased may not be reflected once a token is marked as duplicate.
Reference
Title: "How to Manage iOS and macOS Apps Purchased through Apple Business Manager with Microsoft Intune"
Source: Microsoft Learn
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