Found this Gem , Importing Placeholders for AppleTV

[Manuelpl]

While importing a placeholder for some iPads I was peeking through profilemanager.log , when I found this gem.

[351] [2014/05/22 16:17:21.942] I: Imported placeholder device "MH-Gary Ho_iPad Mini45", SerialNumber=F7NMXXXXXX84, IMEI=, MEID=, UDID=, DeviceID=, AirplayPassword=

What I did next was add a new column AirplayPassword= to the placeholder CSV and put a password in.

Uploaded the placeholder for an AppleTV and it added the Airplay password to my AppleTV Device in ProfileManager.

Just yesterday I added 20 AppleTVs to Profile Manager, I could have saved a few steps.

[Jwzg]

Better yet, set up DEP using the order numbers and the placeholders will automatically appear. Edited May 23, 2014 by Jwzg

[Manuelpl]

Better yet, set up DEP using the order numbers and the placeholders will automatically appear.

 

DEP doesn't allow adding the Airplay password.

[Edu-IT]

What is a placeholder??

[Manuelpl]

Basically with a placeholder is a temporary holding place in your mdm for a device, mac ipad appletv etc. What contains in the placeholder is the following. devicename and serial if you manually add 1 at a time. You can also import many devices into a csv with with various information as mentioned at the beginning at this post, most importantly serial and devicename, and now recently discovered airplaypassword for AppleTVs. The only draw back to this is, naming the device with placeholders is only temporary and the name will update to the actual device name when pushing info to it. But it gives you time to sort devices around in case you want to do something like add them to groups.

Some reasons to use this is to identify iPads more easily, the generic name is "iPad" if you have hundreds of iPads named the same it's hard to identify them. When you import via CSV it will allow you to create a group from the imported csv. So if you import a cart set, you can add them to a group immediately.

 

I wished placeholders made device naming permanent.