Reinstalling Apps onto iPads

[Brax]

Hi all,

 

We use Apple School Manager and Jamf at our site. We've had some licensing issues which have now been resolved but it's meant that well over 100 iPads have failed to install all their apps as they should despite being in the correct group in Jamf. We've had to manually find the serial for each iPad, go to managed apps in Jamf and click reinstall > yes on each app which is very tedious. My question is, is there a way to automatically force reinstall all the apps on a bunch of iPads at once? Jamf documentation suggests no but i'm wondering if there's a secret way to do it through ASM?

[Brimstone]

Question...

 

Do you have a caching server?

[Brax]

Question...

 

Do you have a caching server?

We have a Mac Mini with Apple Config 2 installed on it but it's not using Content Caching. Is it worth setting up?

[Brimstone]

We have a Mac Mini with Apple Config 2 installed on it but it's not using Content Caching. Is it worth setting up?

 

Can be dependent on your broadband but with over 100 x iPads I'd say it is a must

[Brax]

Can be dependent on your broadband but with over 100 x iPads I'd say it is a must

Ok I'll make some enquiries thank you. Just read this and Jamf do recommend it as best practice with 1:1 or shared devices. https://www.jamf.com/blog/what-are-shared-ipads-in-education/

[Steve21]

If it's failed multiple times I'm pretty sure it just falls back to a 24-hour check in so should still retry the installations

 

Steve

[bknaggs]

In the Apps inventory in Jamf there is an option (somewhere) to clear errors and try again.

[Brax]

In the Apps inventory in Jamf there is an option (somewhere) to clear errors and try again.

Oh really?! I'm definitely going to check that out tomorrow.

 

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If it's failed multiple times I'm pretty sure it just falls back to a 24-hour check in so should still retry the installations

 

Steve

Yeah that's what I thought but a lot of them just didn't try even though it checked in on Jamf.

[Brax]

In the Apps inventory in Jamf there is an option (somewhere) to clear errors and try again.

You are a legend! This worked immediately.