iPad+Deployment


 * ===purchasing apps===
 * ===managing licenses===
 * ===use purchase orders and tax exempt status===
 * ===app developers can opt to give 50% discount for purchase of 20 or more licenses (must be purchased all at same time)===
 * ===It is designed to take into account the needs of school districts and may be a little cumbersome for us, but easiy negotiable.===

Here is a synopsis of how it works:
===The school designates one **authorized purchaser** who can purchase volume vouchers. Volume vouchers are physical cards in denominations of $100-$10,000, and can only be used for volume purchases. These are essentially gift cards that can only be used to purchase through the volume app store===

===The authorized purchaser gives the volume vouchers to **program facilitators** who are authorized to make purchases through a unique iTunes account, which can only be used to purchase through the volume app store and only using the vouchers. For us both of these roles could be one person.===

===After an app has been purchased the program facilitator will recieve a number of licenses that htey can give out to individual people who can then use that license to download it from the iTunes app store using their own account.===

Pre-deployment, how will it be used

 * ===1:1 or shared?===
 * ===application and content planning===
 * ===configuration profile planning: what features do you want to restrict===
 * ===spare units for quick replacement===

-sample workflow
> ===through special 3rd party units like Bretford's iPod Touch cart or briefcase,=== > ===or through powered USB hubs===
 * 1) ===register device - single device at a time===
 * 2) ===install profile - single device at a time===
 * 3) ===sync data - multiple devices at a time===

**iPhone configuration utility**

 * ===would be more aptly named iOS Device Configuration Utility, is used to create and manage configuration profiles.===
 * ===Can't deploy purchased apps with iPhone Configuration Utility, only apps created with Apple's Enterprise system===

**Configuration Profiles**

 * === let you: restrict apps, restrict features, reset wireless info, link to webapps ===
 * === they are xml files that contail devise settings and policies ===
 * === you do not have to have one monumental profile, you can have separate profiles that can all be active on one device ===
 * === you can set profiles to be removable by user, removed with authorization, or never by a user ===
 * === If you want to turn off installing of apps, you should install apps first then install the profile or it will block your installatin of the apps ===
 * === restoring the device with iTunes will wipe out configuration files ===