iPad Configuration

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30 April 2012

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Bud FauroteCassville, Wisconsin

• Teacher for 34 Years

• IT Manager for 14 Years

• Title I/ESEA Coordinator for 2 Years

iPad Vocabulary

• iOS: iPad Operating System

• Apps: Application programs for iPad

• VPP: Volume Purchase Program

• Redemption Codes: Used to install paid apps

• Apple ID: ID to purchase from iTunes/App

Store

Pencil and Paper Time

• How Many

• What will be included

• Distribution

• Management: Centralized or

Decentralized

Configuration Designs

1. Unsupervised

2. Supervised

Three Classes of Management

• OTA: Over the Air

• Cradled: USB

• Content Management

Management Options

1. I Tunes-Mac/Windows

2. iPhone Configuration

Utility-Mac/Windows

3. Apple Configurator/Mac

4. Profile Manager/Lion Server

Different Options

• OTA Content Distribution: Apps

• Cradled Policies/Custom Apps: iPhone

Configurator/Apple Configurator

• Cradles Content/App Distribution: iTunes

• OTA App Distribution: Apple ID/iCloud

• Backup/Restore: iCloud/iTunes/Apple Config.

iTunes Management

• It’s Free

• USB Cradled Environment

• Handles DRM material

• Unsupervised

• Can manage multiple devices

• Doesn’t do VPP management

iTunes

iTunes Summary Page

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iTunes

Apps Page

iPhone Configuration Utility

• It’s Free

• Older Version of Apple Configurator

• Windows and Mac Versions

• Similar Appearance to iTunes Management

• Doesn’t do VPP

• Can’t run at same time as Apple

Configurator

iPhone Configuration Utility

Introduction-Device Summary Page

iPhone Configuration Utility

Application Page

Apple Configurator Management

• It free

• Only runs on a Mac…No Windows Version

• Supervise an unlimited amount of devices

• Cradled/USB sync up to 30 devices at a time

• Updates iOS

• Manages apps, profiles, and backups

Apple Configurator-Uses

• Company/Education Labs: Lab

Manager

• One-to-One environments: Schools

• Device Distribution: Pre-load

apps/profiles

• Backup/Restore

Apple Configurator Do’s

• Update iOS devices

• Rename devices using numbered

scheme

• Erase devices

• Backup and Restore devices

More Do’s

• Push any kind of apps to devices

• Track/Revoke VPP codes on devices

• Assign users from directories

services

• Load non-DRM’d content to apps on

devices

Apple Configurator-Don’ts

• Doesn’t work with Video or Music:

DRM

• Don’t have devices plugged in when

configuring

Using the Configurator

Three Areas of Preparation

1. Prepare

2. Supervision

3. Assign

Prepare

Perform an initial setup and

configuration when the devices won’t

be checking back into the computer

running Apple Configurator routinely

Supervise

Allows persistant changes to devices,

to layer new settings when plugged in,

add Apps, and relocating VPP codes to

new device or when device is retired.

Apple Configurator

Start Page

Apple Configurator

Supervise Page

Apple Configurator

Assign Page

Apple Configurator

Prepare-Settings

Apple Configurator

Prepare-Erase Before Installing

Apple Configurator

Prepare-Apps

Apple Configurator

Prepare-Warning/Apply

Apple Configurator

Prepare-Unauthorized App

Apple Configurator

Prepare-Installing Apps

Apple Configurator

Prepare-Complete iPad

Purchasing VPP Apps• Use an Apple ID not associated with

the VPP Program Facilitator to log in

to iTunes Store

• Make sure your Mac is authorized

with Itunes

• Wise to use a separate Apple ID for

each Mac running Apple Configurator

Backup, Backup, Backup

• The Mac that keeps the redemption

codes is the only record of the valid

use of those codes

• Maintain a current backup.

Tale of the Tape

ITunes

• Unsupervised

• Doesn’t do VPP

• Does DVM

Apple Configurator

• Supervised/

Unsupervised

• VPP Management

• Doesn’t do DVM

Final Thoughts….

Guard the Citadel

Good iPad Management

Happy Student

The End

Bud Faurote

Innovative Educator Consulting

budf@pcii.net