iPad Management

Sorry if I am late to the conversation..
But you don't need a credit card to have an iTunes Account.
Here is the article.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2534

Craig Cohen
HCS Technology Group

We’ve been doing quite a bit of work with iPads since shortly after they were released. We currently have about 70 or so out with iPod Touch devices as well. We first set up a district account and ‘gifted’ apps to our student account we have on all iPads. Now, we are using the VPP to purchase apps and send to the iPads. The only ones we have people actually syncing info to iTunes are for a few of the administrators that have gone that route instead of carrying laptops everywhere.

We’re in the process of getting everything rolling for Casper 8 in our live environment having been testing it in sandbox for some time now. The web clip self service works very well and and think staff here have responded well. We’re not doing anything with iTunes now after the iPad is initially activated and rolled out.

Now it’s getting the CA all set up and getting Push notifications enabled and an Enterprise account rolling...

John

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John Wetter
Technical Services Manager
Educational Technology, Media & Information Services
Hopkins Public Schools
952-988-5373

I assume you mean me, Nathaniel? =)

It is currently on alias per device, which as that grows is NOT ideal…

And correct to add to the other Craig's point, these accounts are created using the process that has NO credit card associated with them. This process is a bit lame since you have to go and try to purchase a FREE app first to click what is apparently NOT the same Create Account button in iTunes. That's a nifty Applism…

I was not aware of the VPP limitation if the App wasn't setup for it, so thanks for that. We still have our old process in place which is my main management account gifting apps to the generic accounts and then I deal centrally with claiming our TAX back from Apple.

Craig E

Anyone got any links to these demos?
On 12/2/10 11:17 AM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org<mailto:tlarki at kckps.org>> wrote:

Casper User Group. JAMF may have plans to post something. Not sure.

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William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492

Sorry, my iOS related folder is a real mishmash of stuff. Most of it deprecated.

Here's the gem that I wish I would have been around when deployed my first cart...

http://wiki.canby.k12.or.us/groups/ipodusergroup/

Managing a large scale deployment is covered here:

http://wiki.canby.k12.or.us/groups/ipodusergroup/wiki/98ee1/Managing_a_Major_Deployment.html

Good and useful stuff.

thom

So for any of you out there using APN, what is your set up with your PKI/certificates, APN licenses, and such. Our in-house developers wrote some web based assessment testing software which I assume they want to port over the iPads. Plus the state of KS released their software for iOS as well (or at least it is being developed).

I need to write up a bit of a survey of what we need to give it to the people in charge of getting the iPads out. No matter what I will be the one doing the back end support of them, but I don't make any decisions with money - however I will need to be able to outline the costs.

Thanks,

Tom