Joel, “profile” in this sense is a file containing pre-defined configuration information, not a “user profile”. They are typically created using the “iPhone
Configuration Utility” (or Apple provides them, in the case of XCode developer profiles).
The “User can enter” is so that a ‘general’ profile can be created and distributed and each user can customize it at installation time.
From: Joel Esler [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 11:59 AM
To: Danziger, Alan D.
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Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Use of iPads by multiple people (started out as: Volume license for apps?)
There was one of the screenshots of early ipad software on the internet, probably someone breaking the nda, that had abutton that said "profiles" under it on the general preferences button. I am assuming so that
multiple people could use the iPad.
Wonder what happened to that, if that is true.
Sent from my iPad
On May 7, 2010, at 11:52 AM, "Danziger, Alan D." <email@hidden> wrote:
Peter, that’s exactly how it is done – attach the iPad (or iPhone, or iPod) to someone else’s iTunes and it prompts with something along the lines of “Would you like to use this
computer’s iTunes to sync with? Warning, this will remove everything currently on the device”.
The user giving up the iPad could perform a backup with their iTunes, and then when they get it back, do a restore.
“Unattended”, there’s a button under Settings -> General -> Reset, “Erase All Content and Settings” which basically reformats (I believe) the user data partition. After this,
the device will need to be re-enabled by hooking it up to iTunes somewhere.
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Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 10:33 AM
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Cc: Donald Williams; Walls, Bryan K. (MSFC-IS30)
Subject: [Fed-Talk] Use of iPads by multiple people (started out as: Volume license for apps?)
How are enterprise/educational people thinking about deploying the iPad? The iPhone was always a single user type device but the iPad lends itself a whole lot more to sharing.
We share laptops for travel and often wipe out the previous user account, installing a new one for the next user. I imagine that could be done for the iPad as well, just deleting the user-specific information instead of restoring the entire system.
How are emails, document, etc., stored on the iPad? Are they kept separately from applications? Can you wipe out a user without wiping out applications or is everything stored in the user's iTunes account? Speaking of iTunes, how are people managing iPads with
iTunes. I assume everything is managed by iTunes per user (except for applications installed by the iPhone configuration utility). Would the easiest way to switch users be to sync to the new user's iTunes and restore their complete package?
On May 7, 2010, at 7:17 AM, Walls, Bryan K. (MSFC-IS30) wrote:
We use a single profile for all of our users. Well, actually 3 profiles that go on all the phones. Part of the setup on each phone is to enter the user's information for the Exchange and wireless setups.
So, though the profile is for multiple users, it's still only one user per device. The iPhone OS is really designed for a single user. If you want multiple users accounts, go to Mac OS X.
On May 7, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Peter Link wrote:
Don,
I've never seen the iPad or iPhone described as a multi-user platform but the Enterprise deployment guide does talk about the ability to configure profiles for multiple users (pg 30).
"Many of the payloads allow you to specify user names and passwords. If you omit this information, the profile can be used by multiple users, but the user will be asked to enter the missing information
when the profile is installed. If you do personalize the profile for each user, and include passwords, you should distribute the profile in encrypted format to protect its contents. For more information see “Installing Configuration Profiles” on page 40."
I suggest you read through the two documents listed below, and the iPad Security Overview, and try things out
to see what you get. I found out we're getting a few to "test" so we're going to have to go through the same research. Good luck and please report back what you find.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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