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I came to post something similar to this, so to potentially avoid starting a new thread, if I wanted to stream the BBC News from iPlayer to a few TV Screens around the school, is there a simple way of doing it?

Hi all, We've recently started using iPad Minis in the school, which has been great apart from a few niggles. The one which I just can't get to the bottom of, involves the Global Proxy setting on the iPads. As we get our wi-fi from our local council, we have to have them running through an authenticated proxy, which is fine, in theory (i.e works with no problem on my phone when entered manually). When we first set them up and deployed the proxy via Meraki MDM profiles, they didn't work on our wi-fi until the username and proxy had been re-entered on the iPad manually, as although it was visible in the iPad proxy settings, it was like the password hadn't been parsed properly (Smoothwall's realtime web filter confirms that no user is being used, so the only things that load are sites in authentication exceptions). I've also checked with multiple people that I haven't mispelled the password in Meraki (there's a "show password" button too). This would be fine if it only happened the once, but it recurs at random points, and a combination of re-entering the password, force closing safari, and restarting the iPad seems to clear it eventually, but this isn't practical for staff and pupils to do during lessons and sometimes it just doesn't work (like with the one I have on my desk here that has prompted this plea for help). I found this thread here which appears to be the same problem with no solution: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/netbooks-pda-phones/141339-global-proxy-issues.html If anyone has any ideas, or has encountered similar, any help or advice would be appreciated!