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Socks!

Turns out the issue is at their end - here's the reply to my support case:

Morning all I can't enrol any iPads in Meraki this morning, installing Meraki's profile on the iPad fails. I've tried a couple of SSIDs and all other HTTPS traffic is fine. Has anyone else tried enrolling devices today? I was thinking it might be a SCEP issue at their end.

In Meraki, just underneath where you choose which country's ratings to use, there are three Allowed content ratings fields (Movies, TV Shows and Apps). The apps field must be set to Allow all apps for silent installs.

I was genuinely excited when I saw the 'Enrol Now' link had turned up. Does anyone have a UK-based reseller that has signed up? I rang ours, Misco, today and was told they're still in the early stages of finding out how it works.

We had exactly this, it turned out to be an issue with the proxy. ScratchJr gave us two solutions: 1. turn airplane mode on 2. Add the following line of code to the FindProxyForURL function in the .pac file: if (shExpMatch(host, "localhost")||shExpMatch(host, "127.0.0.1")) return "DIRECT";

@mikkydoos it is a lengthy job, but if you have access to a Mac there are Apple Script files on Github that will create (https://github.com/aaronfreimark/Apple-ID-AppleScript) and verify (https://github.com/ntoqiakt/AppleID-Verification-AppleScirpt) the IDs for you

Hi TJ, I've not had this, but Meraki's support team have always been very helpful when I've had issues. You can log a case from the Help menu in Meraki and their support usually reply within 24 hours. For a free product the support has been excellent. Biz

Thanks Synack We've got a cloud-only 365 account for each school with 100 aliases on each - we thought that would be enough As a side note we weren't sure if there is a limit to the number of aliases Microsoft let you have on a 365 account, but if there is it's higher than 100. I've been thinking about an Outlook macro... The main issue I can see is that the verification emails don't always come through in order, so it would have to read some text from the email body or subject or somewhere

Right - reinstalled Mountain Lion and now it's fine. It's basically a macro that runs through iTunes in a loop creating Apple IDs. It trys to buy iBooks (a free app) to get around the payment type issue. Any form field that appears in iTunes can be set to a fixed value or read from a csv. It's been really useful, but sadly it can't log in to the email accounts and verify the accounts. Or unbox and activate the iPads for me! ;-)

After spending most of Friday playing with this I finally got it working at about 16.45. It's been excellent! The amount of time it's saved is massive. The only issue is that I decided to update this old Mac Mini to Mavericks this afternoon and now the script won't run...

We've had our domain whitelisted apparently and it seems to have done the trick. Something like this tool would be fantastic, but unfortunately we don't have a Mac EDIT: The page loaded eventually, that'll teach me to be impatient!

Yep! I get this every batch of iPads I do. I've started enrolling them one by one now as the first iPads to get the apps go through fine, but the downloads get slower and slower until the last few get stuck "waiting". If I wait until all the apps are on one before moving on to the next I don't seem to get any issues. There's been some suggestion around the office here that someone in our external IP range has a caching server turned on, but I'm not sure.

The way I've been doing it is to sign in to iTunes and then pretend to redeem a gift card, iTunes asks me to review the account and gives me the 'none' option in payment type.

We have a very similar setup, the biggest number of iPads we have on the same Apple ID is around 80 as each primary school has a single Apple ID for all their iPads. We use Meraki and the VPP to distribute apps to selected iPads, but we (meaning I) have to type the Apple ID password into every iPad each time I push a batch of apps.

Hi, would you mind elaborating on what went wrong and what the fix was? It could be helpful, Thanks

Could it be that they were running Windows XP Embedded? Some versions of that are going to be supported until 20-bloomin'-19!

Roaming profiles are a good idea. For staff we restrict access to Add/Remove Programs, disable right click on the Start menu, turn off the Run button and not much else - what's the point?