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February 09, 2015 6:57 PM

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Jane Perry

Can anyone recommend a third party MDM for iPads? We would like to have different cofigurations/apps on groups of five iPads.

Thank you!

February 10, 2015 6:52 AM

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Scott Barnett

Hi Jane,

Take a look at Meraki's MDM system. We've been using it in Smithfield and it works pretty well (within the frustrating limits of Apple's ecosystem). The best part is that Meraki MDM is free!

Paul Barrette
Director of Technology
Smithfield Public Schools
pbarrette@smithfield-ps.org

February 10, 2015 10:18 PM

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I would second Meraki - We currently use it here at EWG and it does a good job. It's cloud based, provides an easy to use interface, baseline functionality and is free. That said we are going to be taking a look at iBoss's MDM offering in an attempt to streamline our process of offsite content filtering.

February 11, 2015 9:26 AM

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Jim Murphy

We are using VMWare's Airwatch here. The big hurdle is getting over the Apple headaches with all of this.

February 24, 2015 8:28 AM

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For those using Meraki, do you still need a mac desktop/laptop to manage your iPads or are you fine with just a PC and Meraki?

Thanks,

Matt

July 21, 2015 3:08 PM

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Jane Perry

Matt, did you get any answers to your question? will a pc do yhe job?

July 22, 2015 7:47 AM

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Brian Taveira

We are currently installing AirWatch. Somewhat complicated and I’m still going through webinars to learn it.

July 22, 2015 8:57 AM

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Jane,

If you buy your iPads through Apple Education, you can use the deployment website to "supervise" them. Due to this you don't need a mac. If you want to supervise a BYOD type of iPad program though, you'll need the mac to supervise them (I still don't have one).

We're using an MDM called TabPilot now, it's designed for schools (much less you can configure, as there is much less you NEED to configure) and also it has some nice classroom management where it can lock down the iPad screens, push a certain web page, etc.

Also worth noting it's only that classroom management feature that I needed to supervise the iPads, i can push apps to them w/o supervising them, using VPP, which is integrated into TabPilot.

Matt

July 23, 2015 11:12 AM

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John Bilotta

Not sure if everyone received this invite from OSHEAN for MDM cloud offering...

Good Morning,

OSHEAN hosted a webex last week on the Mobile Device Management Cloud Offering (MDM) presented by iBoss. This feature will allow you to install software on mobile devices, track location of devices, and many more additional functions. For your convenience, we have posted the link to the webex on our website. You may find the link by clicking HERE.

Please note that you will need to log into the OSHEAN website to have access to this presentation. If you are unsure of your website credentials, please contact Nimota Garcia at nimota@oshean.org or Greg Silva at greg.silva@oshean.org.

Thank you,

Greg Silva

Member Services Representative