dcherry88

Ok. So i noticed that if you have any content ratings settings applied via any policies it forces a prompt of the login box. I had this issue with student ipads earlier this week. Once i turned off any content restrictions, silent installation worked fine. Aside from that the processes is pretty straightforward. -'purchase' the app on the app store in itunes on mac or pc. Once it is showing in purchased apps it should be pushable silently. -find app listing in meraki and add it to your lists. I used tags so i could make sure to install it on specific devices. if you dont tag it, it will install on all IOS devices within the System Manager network. -if you havent signed in on the ios device, it is going to prompt for an account on the first app push, but shouldn't afterward. I had already grabbed one app off the store when i started pushing out apps, so itunes information was already in the device. The only way you are going to be able to push apps is to have it signed into an account. If you have any intention of letting people use their own AppleIDs, there is little control you can put over what they install or uninstall. With Apple Configurator, you could setup layered supervision which would allow you to put the apps you want to on the ipad for company purposes, but also allow your employees to sign into the device with their account. At this time, it can only be done via Apple Configurator. The new OS X Server is suppose to bring in some wireless supervision, but i haven't gotten to toy with it. If you have paid apps you want the users to have, Apple is suppose to change their Licensing model soon to make it a lease-based system. You lease a license of a paid app to the users and can revoke it later to give it to another person.

To make sure I understand before i elaborate, are you signing into a pre-set itunes account on the iphones, or trying to get apps onto the devices without any app account, letting them opt to sign in with one for their own app usage later?

I figured this out as reference for anyone else wanting to know. You can silently push any apps that are shown on you purchased history for the itunes account. So if you were to make the 'purchase' of a free app from itunes on a computer before attempting to push it to the ipads on the same account, it would flag as purchased and just install on the ipads without a prompt. I am personally giddy about this, since i won't have to play 'whack-a-mole' with ipads while pushing out multiple apps to multiple devices at once

I'm using Meraki, how are they 'unofficially' supporting this right now?

I'm looking to provide somewhat similar solution. Administrator is wanting to mount 3 tvs within different locations in a building, a couple fairly far from the third tv, and broadcast the Digital signage i'm setting up. Since he wants the same on all TVs, i would like to do this with one single pc driving all three displays at once instead looking at the possibility of 3 seperate pcs. Unless i'm missing it, it looks like Miracast or the WiDi will not provide this multi-display functionality. Has anyone utilized any vga-over-ethernet solutions or even a vga to coax converter box they could recommend?