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The server is only meant for enterprise deployments. It would be pretty hard to do this on a personal level because you need to apply for an enterprise account with Apple, and request a very specific push certificate option.

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You can't even sign up for the Enterprise program if your Apple ID is associated with the Apple Developer Program. You'll get the following error when signing up:

> Your Apple ID is already associated with a Team Agent enrolled in this program

You should contact developer relations they can get you hooked up with the same account

Setting up Mobile Device Management itself is not particularly onerous, it's definitely best practice to create a new Apple ID for that purpose, however. A technical individual can already do this easily enough with the freely-available Meraki MDM. The Device Enrollment Program I believe is more complicated and inaccessible to individuals (haven't dealt with this personally), and is quickly becoming a prerequisite for many of the more invasive and useful capabilities, like the kext signing and deployment mentioned on the MicroMDM homepage.

Meraki MDM is not free anymore AFAIK. But if you signed up while they offered the 100 free devices plan it's still valid.

Hm, guess I missed that...and their offering has a long way to go before I'd consider it worth paying for. An alternative then might be Jamf, they recently started offering a free tier with a handful of devices for their hosted 'Jamf Now' MDM (or at least it's free via their promotions on sites like Daring Fireball).

Anyone can get a push certificate, it's not just businesses,

https://identity.apple.com/pushcert/

MDM push notifications require to be signed by a special certificate, which is only available upon request.

While that is true, anyone can get a push notification cert, this is a different cert..

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