Safari restrictions on iPads

[McAdams]

Hi List, my first post. We're getting training on Casper soon and I'm very enthusiastic about learning more.

For now, we have a customer that wants to use iPads for ultra cool kiosks. They want the customers to be able to flick through a presentation but not open Safari to some awful website. Can I create a profile that will lock out certain sites in Safari?

Best regards,
-- jmca

John McAdams
Professional Services Engineer
917-496-0106

[jarednichols]

You're going to want to use the iPhone Configuration Utility to load a profile on that disables Safari (and anything else that you want).

See more here: http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/

j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[McAdams]

Hi Jared,

Thanks for the fast answer! I see that I can eliminate Safari from the launch pad, but it doesn't look like I can restrict content. Is that your experience?

-- jmca

John McAdams
Professional Services Engineer
917-496-0106

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[#4]

Additionally, while Apple does provide a blanket selection for blocking
"explicit" materials via ICU, it is restricted to music and podcasts (and
obviously ones that have been appropriately tagged".

If one wanted to get aggressive, jailbreaking the iOS device for the purpose
installing OpenSSH and modification of /etc/host would work, but probably
not on the docket for client machines or (I'd imagine) an easily billable
charge. At least, not unless they have already compiled a blacklistŠ

iOS is a bit painful in controlled environments.

t
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Thom Burrell

[ernstcs]

It would be my understanding that you can not restrict what is viewed in Safari on an iPad (I would argue against that personally anyway), aside from Flash content that is. ;)

You can certainly limit the ability to actually launch Safari with restrictions on.

Craig E

[CasperSally]

I went to an Apple deployment event this week.

They are saying iOS will be more controllable in the coming months for customers (in time for next school year, it was educational event). They spoke very highly of JAMF in general for client deployment, and mentioned the MDM coming soon as well. We'll see I guess.

[Bukira]

why not proxy safari through a proxy server with restrictions on it

Criss Myers
Senior IT Analyst (Mac Services)
iPhone / iPad Developer
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
LIS Development Team
Adelphi Building AB28
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE
Ex 5054
01772 895054

[#8]

Mighty good call. If the channels are open, this is obviously the way to
go.

I've obviously been stuck in my position for too long ‹ I'd have to petition
across two departments to request that be done and then wait three week to
get a response telling me that this is precisely why they don't want iPods
and iPads in the classroom.

I've gotten far too accustomed to having to circumvent the machine to solve
my own problems. You should see the Frankenstein I have in place to get
these things into our network to begin withŠ

t
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Thom Burrell

[McAdams]

Thanks Thom. That may avoid much hoop jumping.

John McAdams
Professional Services Engineer
917-496-0106

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[bentoms]

What about parental controls? Will they help?

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Ben Toms
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[jarednichols]

Yes, but they're only effective for content that's actually rated (e.g. From the App Store or YouTube)

j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[Kedgar]

This is probably your best approach. Also depending on your footprint, open
dns has some filtering solutions available.

Sent from Ken's iPhone