u/Limp_Substance4433

Hi all,

My company just purchased some Apple TVs from Costco under the assumption that we could enrol the devices into our Org on ABM using Apple Configurator on a Mac.

This is the 4K Ethernet model which does say on their website that it is able to be enrolled.

What I’ve been doing:
I plug the Apple TV in to HDMI, power, and Ethernet. I plug my Ethernet into my MacBook. And then open Configurator. Nothing shows up and then when I go to paired devices, once again nothing shows up. At one point during troubleshooting the Apple TV showed up very briefly under paired devices as being able to be connected to and it gave me the verification PIN. After inputting the code, verification failed and I was put back to square one.

I am monitoring through my terminal the mobdev protocol, I can request the DNS information on the Apple TV and get its IP, Hostname and some other info. But mobdev has never shown me any results except for the one time the Apple TV decided to show itself.

Lastly, I tried doing this on both a managed and unmanaged network and I think I’m losing my mind. I called Apple Business Support and they were exactly 0 help.

Any ideas or thoughts?

Today when signing into the Microsoft Admin Center, I got a peculiar message saying I did not sign in with MFA and to make sure I add MFA as a secondary layer of security to prevent "sign-in disruptions" beginning in February when mandatory MFA enforcement begins.

Exact popup notification:

MFA will be required starting in February—set it up now

You’re signed in without multi-factor authentication (MFA). Enable MFA today to add a second layer of protection and avoid sign-in disruption when enforcement begins in February.

Now you may think, "Wow this guy must the shittiest of shittysysadmins for not having MFA".

But just before I got this popup, I signed in using my FIDO2 Security key which is the only authentication method setup on our privileged admin accounts and technically across my entire org. Additionally, we have recently completely moved away from traditional MFA methods due to phishing concerns.

So now I am questioning, why did I get the pop-up in the first place. Does this mean that every account in our Microsoft Tenant is going to get locked out come February due to only having passkeys??

Has anyone else seen this?

Surely this is just another Microsoft screw up and my sign in was falsely flagged as not using MFA since technically MFA and Passkeys are considered different auth methods.