Do a grep for 'MDM Profile' or 'MDM' it is the standard name for all management profiles Checks for any installed profiles (use 'man profiles' to see your options in the terminal manual) Last but not the least, you can go the hacker way to ensure it never happens again.ġ) Setup a Launch Agent or Daemon with a script which runs all the time in the background ( every 5 minutes - recommended ) and does the following: The 'check-in' to ABM (Aple Business Manager) ONLY happens at the setup stage, which means the following holds trueġ) If you install a new OS from Apple and disable your internet at the setup stage, nothing will get installed.Ģ) You could also use a USB installer with the internet disabled and that will keep the MDM from installing. Ok, not sure if you still require this but here goes. Resellers on Amazon do not like negative reviews, so you may want to just drop a hint that one such review may be forthcoming unless they can assist you. If this purchase was legit and you aren't up to anything fishy, you need to be contacting them to see if they can help, or at least the reseller and ask them for assistance in contacting the original owners. The fact that you are just looking for a way to disable it without going through the correct channels also raises some suspicion with me. Any chance you can contact them about it? They would be the only ones who can get rid of this. I know they have a location in, I think, Abu Dubai or some place like that. They have a location that's literally down the street from where I work. It may not be that, and could genuinely be that the people who sold it forgot to remove it from their DEP program, but I don't know - wholesale used machines etc? Sounds a little fishy to me.Īlso, I'm familiar with the New England Center for Children. I hate to say it, but it almost sounds like you purchased a lost/stolen device. Apple wouldn't put something in place that would be so easy to exploit by nefarious people.

Otherwise anybody with access to a serial number could enroll a machine and remotely 'take control' of it.

Why does command prompt keep popping up