tomkinsong

I'm thinking of using the pre-set AppStore account that has access to the apps I want to push and signing on to each iPhone as I provision them. I wouldn't install any of them directly from the iPhone, I would push them via the Meraki MDM. So the iPhones would have my default [email protected] AppStore account on them as I hand them out - with the idea that the users can use the phone "as-is" and not install any additional apps or if they wanted more control, they could create their own AppStore account or use an existing one.

Would you elaborate on this a little for me please? I'm in the exact same boat as you - using Meraki and iOS 7 devices. We're deploying about 100 new iPhone's and I'm trying to avoid creating 100 "corportate" AppStore accounts (using their work email addresses) as apposed to having the users use or have to create the AppStore accounts themselves. Call it hand-holding but it is what it is... I'm also using Meraki as my MDM and am putting the iOS 7 devices in "Supervised" mode using Apple Configurator before adding them to the MDM. I've got an "[email protected]" account that I've used to install 6 apps that I want to deploy to all of the iPhones using Meraki. I've added the 6 apps to Meraki and I've pushed them to the devices successfully. When the iPhones get the 6 apps pushed via Meraki, they prompt the user to install the apps and they have to use an AppStore account (either new or existing) to install them. Can you outline how you're able to silently push the apps (I'm assuming there's no prompting to the user) and how they're not forced to enter an AppStore account. In your scenario, are you having to create AppStore accounts for the devices you're pushing apps to? Thanks, Gary