Remote iPad Configuration and Management
Will need to deploy 40-50 iPads for younger students in a school. Currently have a subscription to Airwatch. Profile setup was relatively easy and there is a decent amount of granular control over settings. The issue we're running into is organizing the apps.
There are roughly 55 different downloaded apps used. We would like to have them organized into particular folders on the homescreen. Airwatch support has said their service does not have the functionality to deploy a profile that has apps placed into folders(containers).
Given that we have access to an mdm server, is there a way to take a master iPad image and deploy it to supervised/managed devices wirelessly? This will keep the organizational structure we need. I know you can do this via USB with Apple configurator, but is there a way to do this wirelessly?
Posted Aug 31, 2015, 7:13 PM UTC
Only thing I an think of would be to setup one of them fully with all the apps already organized and use the apple configuration utility. If each app needs to be customized I feel bad for you. We had to deploy 450 with only a single app on the home screen. We still had to touch each one to configure the app, but it helped having all of the apps moved to the second page. We use airwatch too.
Can confirm that configurator is the only way to do this. My department used to manage (or try to) 1000+ iPads, it's a nightmare when you try to scale it. We eventually learned our lesson and left it up to the teachers to manage the iPads for their classroom.