Overview
This documentation provides a step-by-step guide on setting up a new Purdue owned out-of-the-box (OOB) iMac or MacBook. The target audience includes users who have purchased a new Purdue owned iMac or MacBook and need assistance with the initial setup process. The key features include creating a local account, setting up user information, and configuring essential settings.
Requirements
- YOU WILL NEED TO ALLOCATE AT LEAST 45 UNINTERRUPTED MINUTES FOR SETUP
- ONCE YOU START THE SETUP PROCESS, YOU WILL NEED TO FOLLOW IT TO COMPLETION
- Do not use a public wifi at such locations as coffee shops, hotels, and restaurants to set up a new device. It will fail, and you will have to start over.
- Plug in your laptop to a power source to keep it from going to sleep during the setup.
- A new Purdue owned iMac or MacBook.
- Internet connection required for setup.
Instructions
- Connect the computer to a power supply & power it on.
- Select your country.
- Choose "Set up as new"
- Select "Not Now"
- Choose the appropriate connection.
- If you are setting up the device wirelessly, select your network and enter your credentials.
- This screen will show up, select "Enroll".
- Select the checkbox to "Set time zone automatically using current location".
- Enter your Purdue email address.
- Enter your Career Account password.
- Click "Enable Now" if you get this screen.
- Enter your information. If you are fully remote, select "REMOTE" for your building and enter "0000" as the room number.
- You may get this pop-up in the upper right-hand corner of the computer. Wait until you are finished before you install updates.
- This screen will show the progress of the installation of standard programs and profiles. The boxes will show green check marks when completed.
*The time each step takes will depend heavily on the speed of the internet connection
- If you are not on a Purdue network, you will get this message and need to use the VPN to continue.
- Open the VPN in the dock, and log in with your Career Account credentials.
- You will need to use the Duo app from your phone to authenticate the VPN
- When prompted with the Purdue IT Maintenance Helper, please enter the password of the account you created in the beginning.
- Sign in here with your Career Account. Add the printers you need. Click here if you are unsure how to add printers, and start on step 5.
- You will receive this message when the process is finished.
- Click "Finish" and restart the computer.
- When you get this pop-up, uncheck the box
- You will see this logon notice. Click the check box "I Agree" and click "Done".
- If the dock at the bottom of the screen looks like this, then continue to the next step. If not, go to step 25.
- Click the magnifying glass in the upper right-hand corner and search "self service". Then click on it.
- Log in to Self Service with your Career Account.
- Search "dock" and click "Reset"
- Your dock should now look like this.
- Open Self Service+ in the dock.
- Log in with your Career Account.
- Select Catalog and then Updaters.
- Click Run next to Update Inventory. Wait for this to finish.
- Click Run next to Update Policy. Wait for this to finish.
- Find Update Applications. Choose Update Now.
- This will scan your computer for all the applications that need updates. IT CAN TAKE UP TO 15 MINUTES FOR IT TO SCAN YOUR COMPUTER.
Once the scan is complete, it will start updating apps.
- When all the apps have finished updating, click Done. The setup is now complete.
