Answering my own question.
It appears that payloads of type "com.apple.management.organization-info" are automatically applied, and do not need to be activated.
The error indicated that the activation was incorrect, as there were no declarations included - only the management.org-info.
The was gleaned by re-watching the WWDC videos from 2021 onwards about DDM.
derickTT
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