Hi all. New to the forums and new to my technology department and IT altogether.
I've been tasked with finding a new way to set up our district's 200+ iPads. What I've currently got is Apple Configurator 2 set up on my Mac, VPP and iTunes accounts set up for each school site (to keep funds separate), and Meraki as our MDM (which was used to previously, and messily, manage our iPads). I think I've got the process down, but I'm not sure. Does anyone have a good link to the step-by-step for this? I tried searching the forums, but there are a lot of posts.
Very basically, here's what I think I have so far:
1. Set up student and teacher profiles in AC2, with security and usage settings.
2. Purchase apps using VPP account.
3. Create blueprint for each school on AC2.
4. Push out iPad configuration with syncing cart.
I know I'm missing a lot of stuff, but I'm feeling a little overwhelmed.
One of my biggest questions to start off is that when using the VPP account, it says that free apps must be managed using your MDM. Does this mean I need to run these apps through Meraki and push them out to the iPads? If so, how do I get them on to each of the blueprints?
Thanks in advance for the help. I've been doing lots of reading and researching the last few weeks (in between all the other jobs), but I'm having a hard time getting this all straight in my head.
