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So does that mean they are in fact running windows RT? which in that case renders them to nothing more than a coaster! Just to clarify did you actually join it to the domain? I just want to be sure these can be added otherwise they are useless for us in a school enviroment. As we tried the surface RT and they turned out to be a huge waste of money (thankfully only bought 3 as a test) Thanks for your reply's

Win Win then especially that they are domainable be interesting to hear how you get on with a full test.

Any suggestions on easy ipad password management? We are using meraki for our mdm solution witch does provide a passcode reset command. Unfortunately this only works if the device is connected to the wifi. The scenario- Staff take home an ipad and leave it there for a few weeks, they then manage to forget what passcode they have set and then bring them in to us (yay) The problem is the iPads are no longer connected to the network as they have to sign in (which they cant as the ipad is locked). So currently we have to completely erase the device and start again which seems to be the only way to reset the passcode. We dont have a Mac (refuse to buy one just for iPads) and ipads are initaially setup from my PC using a generic iTunes backup. Any ideas or suggestions? would be great to easily reset the passcode especially as xmas break is on its way so my new year will be filled with staff iPads with forgotten passcodes and sob stories "but i took all the family photos on my work device and let my son play with it who changed it"..............woop can't wait

I have setup a standard backup of an ipad using itunes. It has no apps but has all the basic settings of how I want them setup. Any new ipads come in are wiped and have this image put on. Once meraki is installed the basic apps are automatically pushed out. We have setup tags for each department so once enrolled it is assign its tags and user. Then meraki will push out the specific apps for that department. Any questions feel free to ask I regulary bang my head off the wall with these Apple devices lol

I would be interested in this aswell, Currently looking at purchasing a couple of these for the school. After being burned with the surface RT I am sceptical about ever purchasing a windows tablet again! BTW insight are currently doing these for £142 (ex VAT) for the 10" model with keyboard.

Apologies for the delay in reply ! a few months late but hey just in case. Yes you will need to provision out administrative users but you wont need to setup a virtual server with Apple. We have just 2 Administrators setup. You will need to create an MDM push certificate through apple and also create a VPP account to enable the purchase of paid apps. All is relativley straight forward and Meraki have a wealth of information on how to do everything within their support pages. (basically on every item there is a help section which walks you through) We use seperate apple ID's for each device which is provisioned for that user. This negates the annoyance of having to periodically bring each device back to update the apps. I assume you have moved forwared with your MDM solution. Would be interesting to hear how you got on with meraki if you went down their route. Has anyone used Meraki's Paid MDM solution?

+1 for meraki we support multiple ios devices and this seems to do the trick and its free. Not supporting macbook's though.

That's an interesting post and read. Still a shame that you still get prompted to accept the app install though. As it would be good to do a complete silent install so students and staff alike can't say no. Hopefully with time they will enable this then we can have a complete stealth install feature

We Have found this as well, that when assigning apps via VPP you need to accept the invitation on the device you want the app installed otherwise it does not play nicely. We have always done this through the ipads native email app. We also have a separate apple ID account for each device/teacher as we found it is easier and when you have multiple apps to roll out you no longer need to keep re-sending the invitation links. Once accepted any app will then just roll out. Biggest issue we have is awaiting apple to send confirmation emails etc and it can take a short while for apps to actually start the install via Meraki

Is there an .ini file? if so are the resources in the location that this points to? If not edit it to where you want and try it again. If no .ini file your have to find which installation file references the resources and adjust accordingly.

Ok so finally got this to work so anyone else having difficulties these are the steps I used to get this working : If using xampp in windows- Firstly enable the ldap module for php- To enable php ldap module in XAMPP, find the following files and copy them. From C:\xampp\php copy the following files to C:\Windows\system. libeay32.dll libsasl.dll ssleay32.dll Find and edit C:\xampp\php\php.ini and uncomment “extension=php_ldap.dll” around line 965 And then copy the ldap settings from systemdefaults.inc.php into config.inc.php And then edit as nessecary $auth["type"] = "ldap"; $ldap_host = "servername.schoolname.county.co.uk.local"; $ldap_port = 389; $ldap_v3 = true; $ldap_tls = false; $ldap_base_dn = "ou=users,dc=servername,dc=county,dc=co,dc=uk,dc=local"; $ldap_user_attrib = "sAMAccountName"; $ldap_dn_search_attrib = "sAMAccountName"; $ldap_dn_search_dn = "CN=User Name,OU=users,OU=admins,DC=schoolname,DC=county,DC=co,DC=uk,DC=local"; $ldap_dn_search_password = "password"; $ldap_get_user_email = FALSE; $ldap_email_attrib = 'mail'; $ldap_group_member_attrib = 'memberof'; $ldap_unbind_between_attempts = FALSE; $ldap_debug = FALSE; //---end--- It turns out I needed to add .local on the end and also needed to authenticate with a user to search AD the $ldap_dn_search_dn line was wrong I had not included all the OU paths of the tree for that specific user. I used Softerra LDAP Administrator 2014.1 to get the correct search_dn name for the account to authenticate with, to search AD Hope this helps someone else Thanks for your help

So I went over a handful of things and came across a post in regards to 3 .dll files that need to be copied from xampp folder to windows/system From C:\xampp\php copy the following files to C:\Windows\system. libeay32.dll libsasl.dll ssleay32.dll I had already uncommented the ldap line in php.ini so no need to do that part. Restarted xampp and.... nothing lol! Im just going to go over my changes and do them again in case one of them was actually working and I was just missing those 3 files. Wish me luck Thanks for you help pcstru i'll keep you all posted.

Ah yes my setup might help. So currently installed on a windows 7 machine using xampp (apache & mysql) and the AD is on a server 2003 machine I have uncommented the ldap line in php.ini as this was throwing up an error. Not sure if there is anything else I should have running. first time using xampp as usually would use IIS but could not get mrbs to work properly (have Stopped all IIS services running)

Corrected my mistakes and still no avail! tried with and without .local unable to get it going by adding in admin account to search AD aswell hmm at a loss here and dont fancy exporting the contents of AD to add in manually that will be a long day! lol

So I need to setup a user with permission to read AD and basically add in $ldap_user_attrib = "sAMAccountName"; $ldap_dn_search_dn = "cn=LDAPQ,cn=Users,dc=ourschool, dc=org, dc=uk"; $ldap_dn_search_attrib = "sAMAccountName"; $ldap_dn_search_password = "*******"; but with my details?