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This document explains how to enrol a BYO Mac device into

Intune at home (A BYO device is owned by you and not the

school).

Once you have enrolled your child’s device into Intune, they

will be able to access the school’s network and applications.

Notes

These instructions are for devices:

owned by staff and students (BYO)

using MacOS 10.12+.

If during enrolment, the Intune company portal app closes,

open it and try again.

Enrolling your device into Intune

Step 1. Sign in to Microsoft Intune

a. Connect to your home Wi-Fi.

Note: If you cannot enrol your device at home, ask your

school for assistance.

b. Open Safari and type

https://portal.manage.microsoft.com to access the

Intune website.

c. Enter your child’s Education Queensland @eq.edu.au

email address. Select Next.

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d. Enter your child’s school user name and password.

Accept the terms and conditions and select Sign In.

e. A prompt will pop-up asking you if you want to stay

signed in. Select Yes.

Step 2. Install Intune

a. Intune company portal will open. Select Devices.

b. Select the banner displayed on the devices page. This

will be either:

You don’t have any managed devices. Add

this one by tapping here

or

Tap here to tell us which device you’re

using or add a new device

depending on whether you have other devices

enrolled into Intune already.

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c. If you are adding a device for the first time, you will be

prompted to download the Intune company portal to

your device. Select Download.

d. If you have already installed Intune company portal

previously, go to step 3 on page 6.

e. Select the blue download icon in the tray at the bottom

of your screen. Select the brown download icon in the

tray, if it displays.

f. Select the installer icon which appears in the tray.

g. Select Intune company portal installer from the list of

downloads that display.

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h. Select Continue.

i. Read the license terms. Select Continue.

j. Select Agree to accept the license terms in the popup

window.

k. Select Install.

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l. Enter your username and password and select Install

Software.

m. Select Close.

n. Intune company portal has completed installing.

Select Move to Trash.

o. The Microsoft auto update will appear, select install if

there are updates waiting. Otherwise select OK.

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Step 3. Enrol into Intune

a. Select Launchpad and then select comp portal app

to open Intune company portal.

b. Select Sign In.

c. Enter your child’s Education Queensland email

account. Select Next.

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d. Enter the username and password for the Managed

Internet Service. Accept the terms and conditions and

select Sign In.

e. Select Continue.

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e. Select Continue.

f. Select Enroll.

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g. Wait while your Mac device is being enrolled.

h. Enter your username and password for your device

and select OK

i. Wait while the management profile is being installed.

j. Select Open System Preferences.

k. Select Management Profile. Next select Approve.

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l. Select Approve.

m. The system preference screen is displayed. Close the

window by hovering over the red circle in the top left

hand corner, then select the x that appears.

n. The Intune company portal app window will still be

open. Select Continue.

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o. Your device is enrolled into Intune. Select Done.

Helpful Resources

Microsoft User Guides

Note: Microsoft has user guides and help documents for using Intune. Some of the links and documents below are Microsoft documents and the school or Education Department is referred to as a “company”.

Helpful Links

What happens when you enrol your device with Intune?

Video Instructions – Enrolling your Mac device.

Things you can do when your device is enrolled in Intune.

Using the managed devices to get work done.

Un-enrol your device from Intune

Note: when you un-enrol, you will lose any apps installed through Intune and the data inside these apps.

Note: You have now completed the Intune

enrolment steps and can use your device.

Keep the device connected to the internet for

15 minutes as installation steps complete in

the background.