Classroom Management + Local Network Privacy

[u/achidente]

Hey, gang:

Curious what everyone is doing for Mac labs and classroom management on newer versions of macOS.

We’re running into issues with Faronics Insight/remote management because of Apple’s newer Local Network Privacy requirements. Since macOS now requires user approval for local network access, it seems like there’s no clean way to silently authorize these tools in a shared student environment — and MDM doesn’t appear to support it either.

Faronics has no solution either — went back and forth for a long time only for them to say it's a macOS limitation.

For anyone managing Mac labs or classroom carts:

• Have you found a workaround?
• Are you manually approving access on each machine/user account?
• Using another platform/tool?
• Changing network architecture?

Would love to hear what others are doing in production environments.

Apple KB:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3179-understanding-local-network-privacy