Obtaining Apple beta program tokens

As discussed in an earlier post, you can sign up for Apple’s AppleSeed for IT program using a user with the Administrator role in Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager and subsequently obtain tokens which allow devices to be enrolled in Apple’s beta programs without the need for the user to sign in with an Apple Account on the device.

Apple has documentation available on how to obtain these tokens using an API call to the following endpoint:

https://mdmenrollment.apple.com/os-beta-enrollment/tokens

However, the documentation does not include the specifics on how to set up the API call or the necessary OAuth authentication for it. Fortunately, the folks at HCS Technology Group have published a technical article showing how to obtain the necessary tokens using the following:

• An ADE token from your organization’s Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager instance.
• The getBetaTokens script written by the folks from Microsoft.

For more details, please see below the jump.