Automated Device Enrollment (ADE) provides the most comprehensive control over organization-owned devices. This method ensures that devices are automatically enrolled into a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution upon initial activation. A key feature of ADE is its ability to enforce supervision wirelessly, which grants administrators the highest level of configuration and restriction capabilities. Crucially, ADE makes the MDM enrollment profile non-removable by the user, guaranteeing that the device remains managed and compliant with organizational policies throughout its lifecycle. This mandatory and persistent management framework is the foundation for maximum control.

B. Device Enrollment: This is a manual process where the MDM profile can typically be removed by the user, offering less persistent control compared to the mandatory nature of ADE.

C. User Enrollment: This method is designed for personally owned (BYOD) devices and intentionally offers the least control to protect user privacy, managing only a separate volume for corporate data.

1. Apple Inc.

"Apple Platform Deployment

" Apple Support

2024. In the section "Choose an enrollment method

" it states

"Automated Device Enrollment is designed for devices owned by the organization... This enrollment method provides the most device management features and is the most difficult for the user to disable."

2. Apple Inc.

"Apple Platform Deployment

" Apple Support

2024. The section "Automated Device Enrollment and MDM" specifies

"The most important feature of using Automated Device Enrollment is that you can supervise devices. Supervision provides a higher level of device management..."

3. MIT Information Systems & Technology (IS&T)

"Apple's Device Enrollment Program (DEP) at MIT

" MIT Knowledge Base. The article states

"DEP ensures that all institutionally-owned iOS devices are enrolled in MIT's mobile device management (MDM) system and supervised. This allows for a higher level of device management..." (Note: DEP is the former name for Automated Device Enrollment).