Manage Apple Volume Purchase Programs

The Manage Apple Volume Purchase Programs dialog box enables you to add, edit, or delete VPP tokens. VPP tokens are downloaded from the Apple VPP store, then uploaded to a SOTI MobiControl deployment server. The token enables the deployment server and the VPP store to exchange information regarding the VPP applications that have been purchased and the number of licenses that have been distributed to device users.

The Manage Apple Volume Purchase Programs dialog box contains two tables. The upper table lists the VPP tokens that have been uploaded to the SOTI MobiControl deployment server. Each token corresponds to a single VPP account. The lower table lists the App Store and B2B applications that have been purchased for the selected VPP account, the number of VPP licenses that are purchased, redeemed and remaining for each application, and whether the application is assigned to the device rather than the user.

Add Click the Add button to open the Upload VPP Token dialog box in which you can upload a VPP token to the deployment server.
Edit Click the Edit button to open the Edit VPP Token dialog box for the selected VPP account. In the Edit VPP Token dialog box you can:
  • Upload a new VPP token to the deployment server.
  • View the list of App Store and B2B applications that are managed using this token.
  • Edit the information for any of the listed B2B applications.
Delete Click the Delete button to delete the selected VPP account.
Clean Up Click the Clean Up button to 'clean up' VPP licenses for the selected VPP account. That is, VPP licenses (both device-based and user-based) that were not assigned by this instance of SOTI MobiControl will be revoked. The newly revoked licenses then become available for reassignment by this SOTI MobiControl instance.
Note: SOTI MobiControl may occasionally assign VPP licenses to Apple ID endpoints that are unmanaged and created by different MDM instances. A clean-up request retires these unmanaged endpoints and reassigns the licenses to a managed endpoint. This may cause SOTI MobiControl to require the user to accept Apple's Terms of Use again.
Advanced Click the Advanced button to open the Advanced dialog box in which you can reclaim ownership of a VPP account, enable license removal notifications, and reconcile VPP licenses.