IPADs / ASM / Lightspeed

[speakercon]

Please forgive my lack of Ipad knowledge, I've never had much to do with them. I've spent quite abit of time reading through old threads but I'm struggling to it straight in my head the best way to do this.

 

We've got around 30 Ipads that have been previously setup using a single icloud account.

 

We have had a bulk load more of them from the DfE but unfortunately at the time we were not signed up to ASM.

 

I have now setup ASM so I have have contacted the DfE support as I believe it's possible for them to enroll them automatically now we have an org ID?

 

I'd like to enroll our existing devices in ASM as I believe even though it is possible to install a Lightspeed profile without enrolling in ASM, this is called 'Unsupervised' which means the profile can be removed?

 

If so I intend to use AC2 to enroll the older Ipads in ASM, which I believe will involve wiping the IPADS?

 

I have two IPads that we purchased recently from a reseller and they have appeared in ASM, I have setup a Lightspeed profile and linked it to ASM, so the two IPADS are now showing in Lightspeed and I've created some groups and settings and put them in. Am I correct that the Ipads still need to be signed in to an apple ID to allow apps to be pushed out by Lightspeed? If so is the best way to create an icloud account in ASM and then use that to sign into the ipads?

 

Thanks in advance

[Smed]

Once the ipads have appeared in Lightspeed mobile manager and are in a group, select that group and click apps, click install and then since Lightspeed and ASM are now linked any apps you have purchased through ASM will now be available for install via LMM

[speakercon]

Ah okay, for example I've tried to add Chrome, just in lightspeed but the app isn't appearing and it seems to be promoting for an apple ID. So I need to add Chrome to ASM first, then in the lightspeed group?

[Smed]

basically yes, I presume you have linked your ASM account with LMM with the token file you download from ASM? then its just a case of purchasing chrome license's through ASM, after a short while the license's will appear and be available for install in LMM. when you install to a group every device that's in that group will get one license (and install) chrome on that device...

you also have the ability to remove that license (and install) and move it to other devices depending on the number of license's you have purchased (although chrome is free its the same with licenses you pay for)

[Brimstone]

Ah okay, for example I've tried to add Chrome, just in lightspeed but the app isn't appearing and it seems to be promoting for an apple ID. So I need to add Chrome to ASM first, then in the lightspeed group?

STOP........

 

Because each iPad in signed into a Personal ID the apps you are pushing out to the iPads now belong to that Apple ID.

 

Firstly....

 

Sign out of the Apple ID on every iPad, iPads do not need an Apple ID for you to push content to them.

[Brimstone]

Please forgive my lack of Ipad knowledge, I've never had much to do with them. I've spent quite abit of time reading through old threads but I'm struggling to it straight in my head the best way to do this.

 

We've got around 30 Ipads that have been previously setup using a single icloud account.

 

Sign out of the Apple ID in each iPad, you should not be using the same one and iPads do not require an Apple ID

 

We have had a bulk load more of them from the DfE but unfortunately at the time we were not signed up to ASM.

 

I have now setup ASM so I have have contacted the DfE support as I believe it's possible for them to enroll them automatically now we have an org ID?

 

Yes you will need the reseller ID to add to ASM for this either XMA or Computacentre, then ask them to enroll your devices into DEP

 

I'd like to enroll our existing devices in ASM as I believe even though it is possible to install a Lightspeed profile without enrolling in ASM, this is called 'Unsupervised' which means the profile can be removed?

 

If so I intend to use AC2 to enroll the older Ipads in ASM, which I believe will involve wiping the IPADS?

 

You can enrol legacy iPads into ASM and this can be done very easily by finding which reseller they came from and requesting enrolment. As not all resellers are DEP authorised the only way to get them into ASM is by using Apple Configurator, the iPad must be able to run iOS11 if not they can not be enrolled.

 

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/apple-school-manager/apd200a54d59/web

 

I have two IPads that we purchased recently from a reseller and they have appeared in ASM, I have setup a Lightspeed profile and linked it to ASM, so the two IPADS are now showing in Lightspeed and I've created some groups and settings and put them in. Am I correct that the Ipads still need to be signed in to an apple ID to allow apps to be pushed out by Lightspeed? If so is the best way to create an icloud account in ASM and then use that to sign into the ipads?

Thanks in advance

 

See above and previous comment, iPads do not require an Apple ID if you try and start creating them Apple will blacklist your school.

[speakercon]

basically yes, I presume you have linked your ASM account with LMM with the token file you download from ASM? then its just a case of purchasing chrome license's through ASM, after a short while the license's will appear and be available for install in LMM. when you install to a group every device that's in that group will get one license (and install) chrome on that device...

you also have the ability to remove that license (and install) and move it to other devices depending on the number of license's you have purchased (although chrome is free its the same with licenses you pay for)

 

Yes I have set the link up using the token, I think I understand what your mean. Buy the apps in ASM (even if they are free), they then appear in LS and can be assigened to groups which removes the need for an apple ID to be used on each device.

 

I got caught up with something last week but I shall give this a go on Monday, thank you!

[speakercon]

Update! I've got all this working now, many thanks for the help.