How to be a MDM Vendor for iOS

Question

Did a lot of research on this. Saw several opinions, few say I need a Apple Enterprise account, few say I don't. Having a MAC server would help? Do I need to have an enterprise account to be a MDM vendor. Any pointers would be great.

I saw the technical business document provided by MDM, but it was not explaining anything about the internal implementation of the server.

Any help would be great!

Answer 1

After research, we need to have a Enterprise Developer account from Apple, and we need to send MDM payload, from the web server, using Apple's push notification server.

Answer 2

To become an MDM vendor, you need:

1) An Apple Enterprise account

2) Contact Apple (https://developer.apple.com/contact/submit.php) and ask to be an MDM vendor.

They should enable you as an MDM vendor and you will have a "Other" tab in your "Certificates" section to send a Cert. Signing Request for MDM purposes.

Answer 3

You do need an enterprise account, but I'm not sure whether you need to specifically request to be a vendor also. You don't need a Mac server.

As for the details of your request - are you talking about signing your 'customers' certificate signing request which is a required step now in order to be a vendor or actually setting up and running an MDM service?