Lightspeed Mobile Device Manager

[Patrick]

Afternoon!

 

A while ago i had an email from BT telling me that Lightspeed MDM will soon be available for us to use. Anyone know when we can get going on this? Is it already in place but i just don't know it? CLEO is my provider. Bit of a loss as to where to look for this as i move between different schools.

 

Thanks

[TomTomGo]

I've been using Lightspeed Mobile Manager since last Thursday on the BT Lancashire Services/CLEO network. It was due out in May and I had to e-mail the Project Manager a few times to request early access to the admin console. I was sent login details and some documentation, I think they just need to train helpdesk staff before they can launch it to all schools.

 

Its worked really well and Lightspeed's community site is very comprehensive, with little tests and labs as you go. Currently schools cannot access the SMB share on their Lightspeed Rocket tier, which would allow us to upload user and group CSV files automatically generating multiple accounts each night into Mobile Manager. This would be useful for cart deployments of iPads as Mobile Manager requires user accounts linked to devices to deploy apps via Managed Distribution. Hopefully, we will be given this access at some point, or when MBC is introduced ,access to Lightspeed's Clever to allow sync via SIS - in the interim I will have to create manual mobile manager accounts and link them to the devices.