Thanks for your continued help on this OCT_OMG.
The ideal would be that i could create AppleID's en masse in ABM. They flow through into SM and when assigning a user to the device in SM that it also signs in the AppleID associated with the user.
Otherwise if you had a new iphone shipped straight to the employee, they'd still need to signin with the AppleID you give them.
But i dont think it can be done.
When you create a VPP user in SM, it emails the person, so you need to either pre-warn them to forward on those kind of emails or have the users login details to do it all for them.
Once done you can then create an owner by importing the VPP list.
It's very convoluted.......and sadly its been this way for a few years now.
I've successfully enrolled an iphone7 using VPP device assigment and its actually very fast to install all the apps. But, again, the issue of backing up things like sms, contacts, photos etc is forefront of my deployment dilemmas.
Another thing, i've now upgrade to ABM from DEP. I've use our main domain, but i have another domain that is basically a separate company within the group of companies i look after.
Not fig