SkieWhat does the guided stepper in the Provision app show?
The stepper lists each stage of a provisioning run in order, such as checks, pairing, installing Skie and setting the device owner. It shows live progress for the current stage and, if a stage fails, a plain reason you can act on. It lets you see exactly where a device is without guessing.
Provisioning is a short chain of steps, and most problems happen at a specific link. The stepper turns that chain into a visible list. You see which stage you are on, which are finished and which are still to come.
Early stages are checks. The app confirms the student and group, fetches the one-time token, checks the device model has a profile and checks that a seat is available. A model that has not been reviewed and a group with no policy are caught here, before any change is made to the device. Later stages pair with the device, install Skie and set the device owner.
Progress is live. You are not left watching a spinner. If a stage takes time, such as downloading Skie over a slow network, the progress for it updates. If it fails, the failure reason is shown in plain words, for example that an account exists on the device or that another app owns it. The wording points to the fix, and the fix is almost always a reset or a missing setup item in the dashboard.
When the last stage finishes, the device appears in the dashboard and pulls its first policy. The web dashboard inside the app lets you check it straight away.
Practical tip: keep the stepper open on the first few devices of a rollout and read each stage once. After that, the screen is quick to scan, and you will spot a stuck device within seconds. See the readiness gate.
- Ordered stages with live progress
- Checks run before the device is changed
- Failures come with a plain reason
- Finished devices show in the dashboard