iPad+Rollout+Strategies

VPP - Volume Purchase Program -
Being revamped for volume purchasing entities Very important: tie all purchases of apps to a school owned/managed iTunes account

Set up a completely open network (no password) that was wireless and a mac mini - closed network - no Internet access Run web services on mac mini with the profiles for the iPhone configuration Used a iPhone configuration utility Had the profile on a wiki to pull down.

Used iTunes on the server set in activation mode to activate the iPads so you can push out the configuration. If you do this and skip the activation mode the item is not registered with Apple.

Process:

Plug in iPad, activte, then join each to private network to access the wiki, launched safari on iPad

They added two webclips to the configuration profile.

Web clip: basically a Safari Bookmark that looks like an app that can be added to a screen in apps on the desktop

Configuration Utility: Set up wireless network settings Add Webclips Disallow some of the apps: YouTube but not all Block explicit web? content

We need to sync iPods or iPads to a specific computer. Using a group of 5 computers causes synching problems because the iPod or iPad will not connect to another computer.... only the exact computer it was originally synced with.