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Hi all, Our DT department still uses the ever-popular if long-in-tooth 2D Design package in their computer suite. Trouble is, after a redesign of the exam spec, it seems the computer suite needs to go, in order to make room for a textiles area. We're already 1:1 iPad, so I'd love to find an iOS solution to replace 2D Design. Anybody doing DT/CAD on iPads? It'd need to either export to a 2D Design-friendly format, so files can be opened on the one machine left for controlling the Rayjet laser cutter, or somehow magically talk directly to the Rayjet. Bonus points if it also does 3D and talks to the MakerBot, but I expect that's going to take a second, separate piece of software. The big caveat is account maintenance -- I'm happy to have something that can authenticate against G Suite or AD/365/Azure, but maintaining a separate set of accounts just for DT software is pretty much out of the question. (Creeping precedent!) Also open to ideas involving Chromebooks. Laptops aren't under consideration, as staff always complain that boot/load/etc. times are too slow, even with SSDs, and I don't want to spend money on a load of kit just to hear people grumble about it and not use it. Anyone out there doing DT w/ iOS or Chrome devices?

Hi Currently trying to figure out a solution to this: Our ipads are used by many many users within a subject, we have a site wide 365 license, which means we can use the iOS apps. Now, in the office apps, you have to sign in to your account to get all the functionality and onedrive linking. So, if a student takes out an iPad and they sign into all the office apps and then hands it back, the next person to use will then have access to their 365 account and also their onedrive account. Preventing account changes in the restrictions doesn't prevent this either. Has anyone got any suggestions about this? Obviously this wouldn't be a problem if the device was only being used by one person, but there doesn't appear to be an immediate solution for devices being used by multiple users. Would be a shame for students to loose access to this service on iPads if this cant be done.

DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS support is coming to Apple devices this fall. https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-devices-will-get-encrypted-dns-in-ios-14-and-macos-11

Anyone have problems downloading ths ios 7.1.1 upadate in apple configurator. I am trying to prep some ipads via configurator but it keeps failing on the ios 7.1.1 update and as these are supervised devices I cannot turn the auto update off in configurator/ Any help/advice Stuart

Is there a way to export/grab the configurations from iOS apps? I'm using Lightspeed MDM and it gives you the option to add a configuration plist file to the deployed app. But how do I a) get this file from an existing iPad (if possible) or b)How would I go about generating these files for the apps. Ideally I want to set permission for the camera & photos etc, default servers for Foldr & Accelerated Reader etc.

Hey everyone, i have been asked to look nito creating a school planner application for both android and ios, I was wondering if anybody had any experience in doing so or if anyone could point me in the right direction. I have read into both XCode and Eclipse, but don't have a clue where to start. Hope to hear from you soon Cheers Edugeekers.

Hi All, We have a bank of 16 iPad Airs (iOS 8.1.1) that we are looking to deploy as a bookable resource for Staff to loan out for lessons. Also we have 10 dedicated devices being used by our SLT for reporting, meeting notes etc. We are using AirWatch as our MDM solution We build all of our iPads through Apple Configurator. The process is as follows: Connect iPad to Mac and wipe (if it has been previously used) Turn on Supervision and name the device Update iOS if necessary Let AC do its thing restoring the device Tick to install the wifi profile (contains proxy address) We then run through the initial setup screens on the iPad, enabling Location Services (AirWatch requires it) disabling iCloud, signing in with the SINGLE Apple ID until we land on the home screen. Then I go to Settings and check in the App Store tab that we are still signed in (sometimes this logs out - very annoying!) We open the AirWatch app and run through the enrollment process, this then dumps the device in the console and we can manage it from the web page. A couple of questions we have are: When we build a new device, all of the other devices that have previously been built get an on-screen prompt saying "this Apple ID is now being used for FaceTime etc on a new iPad". Obviously this isn't ideal as they are usually being used by Students. When rolling out Apps from AirWatch, our users are intermittantly prompted to sign into the App store on the devices (yes we are signed into the App Store/iTunes on the Mac we are using) WHY?! Is it better to create a single Apple ID to use on all devices or to create multiple ID's for each device? I have tested this briefly, creating iPad01@..., iPad02@... but we are now getting a "sign into the App Store" prompt that literally appears every 2 seconds on the devices that makes it impossible to use the device! We have a VPP account configured to our MAIN APPLE ID (the one we currently use for all of our devices, this works fine. What would the process involve if we wanted to create an Apple ID for every device, would we need to associate all of these to the existing VPP account? Does anyone have any experience with this kind of implementation using AirWatch? Don't want to offend anyone but their support is usually from overseas and English doesn't seem to be their technicians first language! Any help would be much appreciated!

I can't seem to find an existing thread regarding this, but I have a question. For those schools who supply iPad's to their staff, do you make use of an approved whitelist of apps? Or do you allow staff to install their own apps as they see fit? Do you perform a DPIA for all apps in use? Or inversely, do you make use of an app blacklist? Would be interested in answers. Mainly because we are about to distribute new iPads (to replace some older ones on a lease agreement) and the question was raised regarding data protection. What can apps access on devices, especially as we encourage staff to use them for work purposes, can data leak out through uncontrolled means?

I wanted to create teacher accounts in Apple School Manager (for 3 teachers and 3 ipads). I gave them instructor roles but changed the role to allow purchasing. This way they can do what they like but if they leave or die I can recover the ipad I didn't want to MDM for 3 ipads. When they browse the app store the "get" is greyed out.. Does purchase not mean what I think it means? I purchased some apps in the ASM but I assume I'd need an MDM to assign them. (I don't want to do this) Should I just let teachers managed the device fully? (private apple login)

Teams meetings that were recorded in the last 2 days on IOS they play without video (Safari) and crash and do not play in the Microsoft Stream App. although recordings still work on the desktop. Meetings recorded last week play on IOS just fine. Anyone else getting this, Microsoft asked me to try it in Chrome on IOS! (lazy, stupid q&a)

We are trying to get the reading eggs app (https://readingeggs.co.uk/apps/) to work on iPads - through our Smoothwall S4 device. We have been on to Smoothwall support and they've been great, but all we have found is that in order to get it to work we need to do one of the following: - Disable Google Safe Search - Disable HTTPS Inspection Neither of which are an option really! We have the list of URL's and IP's that reading eggs need unblocking (which is pretty extensive btw - i'll put it at the end of this post!) - butting these in the exclusions doesn't seem to resolve it, so i'm looking to the wonderful people on here! There are a lot of Smoothwall appliances out there, and they even sponsor this group! SURELY there is one user out there with reading eggs on a Smoothwall site.... please ... ANYONE! URLS unblocked: readingeggspress.com.au stats.pusher.com student.mathseeds.com 1. allow access to *.readingeggs.com 2. allow access to .readingeggs.com.au 3. allow access to .readingeggs.co.za 4. allow access to .readingeggs.co.uk 5. allow access to *.readingeggspress.com 6. allow access to *.readingeggsassets.com 7. 180.240.184.0/24 8. 200.201.194.16/28 9. 200.201.213.48/28 10. 192.16.0.0/18 11. 5.104.64.0/21 12. 46.22.64.0/20 13. 68.232.32.0/20 14. 72.21.80.0/20 15. 93.184.208.0/20 16. 110.232.176.0/22 17. 117.18.232.0/21 18. 108.161.240.0/20 19. 117.103.183.0/24 20. 198.7.16.0/20 21. 192.30.0.0/19 22. 192.16.10.0/24 23. 213.65.58.192/26

Hello, I was under the impression that iOS 7.1 included a way to prevent MDM profile deletion. Does anyone have more information on accomplishing that? My Google Fu has failed me. Thanks.

Just wondering if anyone out there has managed to successfully deploy any managed app settings to iOS devices through the Meraki MDM? Specifically, I'm looking for automating the adding of a device to the Ricoh Smart Print&Scan app. Otherwise, any app you have managed to do this for will be a start. NB: I have left an enquiry on the Ricoh website. If they respond to me, I will leave it here for all to see.

Hi, We have some iPods and an iPad in school and it won't let me update the iOS. It keeps saying 'Unable to verify update. iOS 7.0.3 failed verification because you are no longer connected to the internet.' There's no issue downloading apps, going on online or anything else. Just happens when trying to update the iOS... anyone know why??

Hi All Really need help here, Some of our ipads have been updated to ios8.2 that in its self is not a problem as such. However If I try and enrol them on to our mdm (Apple profile manager) via a https weblink it fails with a certificate error ssl If I try with an ios 7 ipad it work with the certificate warning but still allows me to the web enrol. The certificates being used are self signed certificates. Do I need to recreate new ones or do I have to buy a certificate from trusted source. Certs are fairly new to me.

I'm having an odd issue using iOS and Outlook. I can send emails from my iPad and they appear fine in Outlook, however, when replying to an email that was originally sent in Outlook 2010 my text appear an unreadable yellow when recieved by Outlook. I've had a look at this thread on the Apple forums https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3921223?start=0&tstart=0 but I'm looking for a solution as opposed to a work-around. Anyone else had this issue?