In theory removing an application seems fairly straight forward, but I have not managed to successfully do this on any Mac, am I missing something (see the theory below)?
Deployment of applications fine, removal; nada.
When one or more profiles/apps must be removed from multiple devices, there are several possible methods:
I've Always added and removed apps via tags ( remove the tag the app will uninstall) .... also I've hide apps using the profile settings
Also in all my apps, I have the Auto-install / auto-uninstall checked
@Network-dad And this would be how I have it set up, I've tried removing TAGs and whole app and yet they stubbornly stay put. I can deploy with no issues. I can see VPP license allocation but when I remove the tag, no revoking nor removal. I do see on the app page under status that the machine has been removed, but the app is still physically on the machine and in the SM Apps list of the machine even after TAG removal. I'm using device assignment.
Have you tested this recently, just so I can get a feel that it actually is working.
I already did a case a while back with no resolution, so here I am looking for feedback to bolster my next case.
I'm looking at Macs in particular, I have a mixture of DEP enrolled and not, all Macs are not supervised.
If they are running macOS 10.15 Catalina, then they will need to be supervised to be able to remove applications..
Same with IOS devices, anything thing iOS 13 and higher will require them to be supervised to remove applications...
10.14
After doing a quick google serch it looks like it still may be an issue to do with the device not being supervised... apple really cracked down on this a little while back and it sounds like other people are having the same issue.
…and how does one actually supervise a Mac, I know you can to an iOS device?
You basically can’t do this after they were bought, no secret sauce of Configurator trick, and despite claims from AppleCare (Business) we never managed to have a single Mac put into DEP ever.
Were one to know the magical keywords to have AppleCare do it, please STW!
So therefore my Macs are supervised, given your definition, as they are mostly in DEP. And yet I still can not remove an app.
well, it sounds like they are actually not supervised.. here is a great article about Meraki DEP supervised devices... https://documentation.meraki.com/SM/Profiles_and_Settings/iOS_Supervision
We have several supervised and non-supervised devices in our MDM and non-DEP devices... and definitely the non Supervised devices have half the features as the supervised ones...
@GrldP see top of page on how it's supposed to work. Supervised or not it should work (I understand the difference when it comes to iOS devices but then we are really looking at BYOD). Enrolled in DEP or not it should work for macOS too.
What I would like to see is if anyone that has a macOS client is able to add a VPP app and then remove it via SM.
I just found this interesting Meraki Blog article stating that with the new IOS it requires supervision... this maybe your issue if your devices are not in DEP or supervised. here is the article https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/tag/mdm/
Are you excited about all the new Apple innovation coming in iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 Catalina? Great, so are we! Both iOS 13 and macOS Catalina are introducing significant changes to Apple’s enterprise management capabilities and we are excited to announce that Cisco Meraki Systems Manager will support new settings and features on both platforms. Here are some of the planned changes coming to Meraki Systems Manager to support iOS 13 and macOS Catalina.
Between iOS 13 and macOS Catalina, Meraki Systems Manager will support a grand total of seventeen device restriction settings changes. The changes include six new restriction settings and eleven settings that are changing supervision requirements.
Now Requires Supervision:
The easiest way would be to completely bypass Systems Manager and use a Software Management software that actually works like Munki.