VPP and new Apple Mac's

[andybarker27]

Our school is using VPP and Apple have two email accounts.

 

First one is registered against VPP and is authorised by Apple. Second one is then created within the first emails account.

 

First one is used on the Mac mini or Probook, second one is used for buying Apps from either the app store or VPP online.

 

Usually we get redemption codes, import codes into apple configurator, for this to send out to the iPads or iPods.

 

Question is what do you do when you get 3 Mac workstations. School have just taken delivery of 3 large screen Macs, they want the same software on as they have on iPads. I am unsure what to do next without messing up any redemption codes etc.

 

Do I simply use the first apple ID account on all 3 Macs, and create a local user for people to use.

 

Way I see it is that if school created 1 ID for each Mac we would have to buy Apps at their full price.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Andy

[abillybob]

Our school is using VPP and Apple have two email accounts.

 

First one is registered against VPP and is authorised by Apple. Second one is then created within the first emails account.

 

First one is used on the Mac mini or Probook, second one is used for buying Apps from either the app store or VPP online.

 

Usually we get redemption codes, import codes into apple configurator, for this to send out to the iPads or iPods.

 

Question is what do you do when you get 3 Mac workstations. School have just taken delivery of 3 large screen Macs, they want the same software on as they have on iPads. I am unsure what to do next without messing up any redemption codes etc.

 

Do I simply use the first apple ID account on all 3 Macs, and create a local user for people to use.

 

Way I see it is that if school created 1 ID for each Mac we would have to buy Apps at their full price.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Andy

 

Hmmmm bit confused by your post to whether your saying you want to manage iPads on separate Macs using Apple Configurator or whether you just want to download the iLife, iWork type of software onto all the Macs to keep them the same.

 

If you're talking about the iPad version DO NOT DO THIS! Apple configurator will only work on 1 Mac if you start trying to manage various iPads on different machines your in for a lifetime of heart ache as the codes will go all messed up.

 

If it's just the software that is fine login to the Mac App Store and redownload all the software you have already purchased. That is what we do here anyway and it's always worked without issues!

[andybarker27]

hi sorry for any confusion. the 3 new macs will not have apple configurator on. they are to be used just as workstations. as the school use VPP they get software slightly discounted. So my thinking as to buy an extra 3 codes per software so we can use them on the 3 new Macs. What im not sure of doing is to use the main VPP account on the new macs. As each of the Macs will need a Apple ID to update software. If I create 3 x new apple id's then how would I use our VPP codes.

[andybarker27]

signed in without a apple ID and you can update the OSX but any apps installed like pages wont update until the ID is put in

[abillybob]

Buddy this might be wrong but I didn't ever do that I signed into our mac server and compiled pages, numbers, keynote in a dmg and installed them using deploystudio. Don't use VPP for the mac apps only iPads sorry buddy not much of help

[andybarker27]

cheers abillybob I thought VPP would also apply to the iMac. Still getting used to these Apple :-)