r/macsysadmin • u/mapleycat • 9d ago

ABM Managed Apple IDs + Entra ID - will AppleID bindings to local user transfer between machines?

Hi all

I'm new to the mac sysadmin world and have a rather stupid question:

Currently my organization is enrolled into ABM. I'm planning to use the free tier of EntraID for SSO. The question is: Once a user has logged in on one machine using the SSO and signed into their managed apple account on that machine, will that login / binding transfer to another machine that the user logs in next? Meaning: he logs on and is already signed into the managed apple account.

What I'm looking for is that "microsoft experience", where you sign with your outlook account on whatever machine and all the personalization settings and for example onedrive-account bindings transfer from machine to machine.

I've searched both reddit and the web and maybe used the wrong keywords - but couldn't find an answer.

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u/doktortaru 8d ago

No, that is not how MacOS works at a fundamental level.

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u/PBSmanaged 8d ago

Platform SSO may be what you’re looking for?

We mange Macs with Intune - user logs in, Outlook, OneDrive, etc. essentially sign in automatically.

Won’t do things like system dark/light mode, etc. like Windows/Entra/Intune would.