Hi Gordon I've been doing this exact thing for setup of iPads at work. Although I'm not restricting them, both apple configurator and the iphone configuration utility will both do what you want. The apple configurator is used to setup and maintain a group of IOS devices. I found it to be too restricted for what I wanted to do. E.g to get it to pre-install apps, the app either needs to be free, or you need to be enrolled in the apple volume license program, which uunfortunately for me isn't available in Australia. This meant that I wasn't able to use this to force apps on to our devices.
I basically just used the utility to generate the xml file .mobileconfig for setting up the profiles for our devices. Email, restrictions ect. The iPhone config utility is basically the part of apple configurator that handles the creating of profiles. Let me know if you have any specific questions. Regards Nick -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2012 2:42 AM To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Profiles on iOS Hi Sarah No, I don't mean either of those things actually. Let me explain. As part of the job I may be in line for shortly, it will be my duty to configure and maintain iPads for a bunch of students in an academy. What I wanted to do was to disable certain functions on the iPad, such as the iTunes App Store. Since these devices will be the property of the academy, we would only require school-related software and content to be installed. Thus, my query regarding a profile which we could lock, in order to prevent such activities as app and music installation. This has nothing whatever to do with beta testing software. I actually know how that's done as it happens. Gordon On 23 Jul 2012, at 16:52, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: If you mean user accounts like things, no. If you mean profiles for beta testing software I don't know. I only know how to install them. lol! <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
