[ipad] HELP! What do you do with your fleet of iPads2????

[adminray]

Hey, I understand that this is probably covered in depth, in other pages, but hey ho I'll start a nice new thread all the same

 

Admin in a school with 150 iPads. Testing trial of Air Watch at the min; couple of questions:

 

Do we need 150 unique Apple IDs to manage this fleet of iPads properly?

 

Do we need 150 'Air Watch' users to apply to each iPad individually (thought this stuff was here to help *save* time?!)

 

We use Ricoh and Oki printers around the site - what is the best app to manage printing for really 'young' and really 'hard to get to read instructions' (teachers) users?

 

Would Apple configurator be OK on its own do you think? I've had lot of problems with this app simply bricking my ipads requiring a full reset using iTunes (time consuming and frustrating in equal measures).

 

What do you use for your lot of iPads / Users... ??? Would love to read your replies!!

 

Thanks in anticipation

Ray

[Edu-IT]

If you want to use managed distribution, each device needs its own Apple ID.

[adminray]

If you want to use managed distribution, each device needs its own Apple ID.

 

wow, ok, thats crazy! I talked with a sales rep from lightspeed too; said much the same. Also said Apple Device Enrolment Program is active in the US but not here.

 

I guess I have to create 150 Apple IDs now then?

 

AhhhhhhhHHHhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[Brimstone]

Contact VPP Support to get whitelisted before you start to create them or you will be blacklisted by Apple. You will then get 30 days to create the Apple ID's, best practice is to create them on each iPad from the activation process, if you use managed distribution and this is a 1:1 scheme you could even get the students to create them themselves.

 

https://www.apple.com/uk/support/itunes/vpp-edu/

[SovietRussia]

We have 63 iPads deployed with one Apple ID...

[forwardgreen]

Me too!