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So I have 30 ipads I had on Lightspeed MDM BUT Lightspeed is not ios 7 ready , so I decide to give Merak try. I have all the push stuff set up right and I added the profile with the apple configurator . I added the Tag cart 1 to the ipads in carts one and applied the profile . Only about 13 out of 30 picked up the Merak restrictions profile. They all have Merak MDM profile installed ( just not the MDM profile that has the restrictions ) . All in the Same cart made with the same image. They couldn't be more identical . Any ideas?

Hi are there any schools that have done this or doing a mass iPad deployment to teachers and staff. We have a few iPads and SLT are looking at investigating giving every teacher and pupil an iPad. I just wondered if there was anyone out there who had done the same? Regards Jonathan

Hi I'm currently working through a series ofissues updating a cart of iPads to iOS7 which are connected to a mac minirunning Apple Configurator. Below are the issues i am having if case anyone has come across them already pls. If i fix them i'll add to this to help anyone else with thesame problems.... Just to mention the Mac, iTunes and AC are allup to date. There's 32 iPads, on around half of them someof the kids have already updated the iOS over the wireless which means some ofthe apps now don't work until they are updated to new versions via AC. So problems so far: 1. When the new versions of apps were importedinto AC they were all showing as free inc paid apps so the codes couldn't be assigned. FIX: Delete the apps from AC first before you re-import them 2. Since the latest updates when the cart isplugged into the Mac iPhoto launches to view the photos on them and i get 30+boxes telling me "Photos in camera roll of iPad 'name' cannot be importedbecause the device is locked with a passcode. You must unlock the device toimport them" A suggested fix is to open Image Capture and set it to notlaunch any app when the ipads are connected but it doesn't make a differenceiPhoto still opens and this message appears every time. 3. When I plugged one iPad into the macdirectly with a usb it updated to iOS7 ok, but when i plugged the trolley innone of them would check in to AC and i got 30+ boxes saying "AppleConfigurator could not connect to this device" The problem seems to bethat the iPads have a passcode on them... For the iPads still on iOS6 if the passcode isentered and then plugged in (either via usb directly or in the trolley) it thenappears in AC ok. Having a passcode on them didn't stop them checking in beforethe update?. For the iPads that have been updated over thewireless (now on iOS7), the problem seems to be when the passcode is enteredand then connected a message appears on ipad screen saying "Trust ThisComputer?" This is a new message? It's annoying as thecable in the trolley isn't long enough to work on the ipad while plugged and itwill be a pain to have to plug them in to usb one by one to turn passcodes offand click this message. 4. Another issue with passcodes is onceupdated, the user is prompted to enter a passcode as it does but each time theiPad is refreshed it wipes the passcode and prompts for it to be set again. It's annoying that before all this i was just starting to get to grips with it all argh! lol, anyway if anyone has come across these issues and hasa fix please comment

I'm looking for some feedback from schools that are using the iPad as a 1:1 device and not as part of a class set. We are just starting to rollout iPads to staff and in the next 12 months plan to start rolling them out to pupils. I'm looking to find out how other schools are managing paid apps onto individual's devices. We have our first set of VPP codes distributed through Meraki which have worked without issue and then discovered the issue with these codes now being assigned to the iTunes/Apple account that redeemed them. I now realise that this isn't possible without using the Apple Configurator. I can see how the Apple Configurator works very nicely for class sets that are being returned to a charging trolly each evening but not for a 1:1 device scheme where your trying to update 1,500 iPads. So I'm looking to find out how other schools have approached this issue. From what I can see there are the following options: Manage all of the iPads using Apple Configurator and collect them all in once a periodically to be updated. Use a cloud based MDM solution and the school takes the hit on purchasing the apps. Use a cloud based MDM solution and pass the cost of purchasing the apps to the parents. The students are given a list of apps that they are expected to purchased outside of Apple's VPP scheme. As well as the above questions how are schools dealing with the pupils 13 years old and younger who can't sign up for an account? Thanks in advance.