Re: Mailing List Introduction, iOS 9 announcements
Re: Mailing List Introduction, iOS 9 announcements
- Subject: Re: Mailing List Introduction, iOS 9 announcements
- From: STEVE Bratt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:51:10 -0700
All,
First, Thanks Marc for setting up this listserv. Hopefully it will
benefit everyone.
As a first post, I do want to share a non-authorized way to prevent IOS
devices from updating on your network. We have had this web filter in
place for over a year and have deployed 12,000+ iPads with no adverse
effects on MDM/DEP or any other aspect if device management and use.
This technique is simply blocking access to the hostname that IOS
devices use to check if there is an update available. It is not the
update server itself, just the "Latest Version" beacon as it were.
So, if you block access to mesu.apple.com on your network, devices will
not know that there is an update available, so they won't try to update.
To reiterate, this is NOT an Apple sponsored or approved technique.
Marc has graciously allowed me to share this info as it may help manage
your network traffic when new updates come out.
As a last caveat, I should say that we have not found a graceful way to
un-do this bock, meaning if we remove the block, everyone will see the
update at the same time (which is what will happen tomorrow anyway, so
it doesn't make things any worse from that regard).
Since all our student iPads use a global proxy that always goes through
our filters, they can never upgrade until we want them to. Our staff
users do not have a global proxy setting in place, so they can update
IOS at home if they like (we usually tell them to wait a bit in case
there are any issues with version X.0 that didn't get picked up in
beta).
Hope this helps someone...
Steve Bratt
Director, IT Infrastructure & Operations
Vancouver Public Schools
>>> Marc Melkonian <email@hidden> 9/15/2015 4:00 PM >>>
Hi Washington State Educators.
My name is Marc Melkonian and I’m a K-12 Systems Engineer with Apple.
I am a pre-sales resource for all Washington State schools.
First, let me introduce the EDU-WA mailing list. This list is designed
to provided a method to share information with Washington State
Educators and supporting staff. This list can support announcements as
well as discussions. The list email address is
email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>.
As a member of this list, you can self subscribe and unsubscribe
(although I’d hate to see you go).
Please note my goal in this list is for sharing information (good and
bad) and helping Apple customers keep up to date with product
announcements and changes.
Now that formal introductions are complete, I’d like to provide some
announcements.
iOS 9
Tomorrow Apple will release iOS 9. This will be a free update for iPad
2 and later devices.
Below please find a few important notes about the iOS 9 upgrade
process.
* iOS 9 will require much less free space than iOS 8. On average,
please expect users will need 1.3GB of free space to upgrade.
* Once a device is upgraded to iOS 9, it can not be downgraded to
iOS 8.x
* Apple provides no supported option to prevent users from
upgrading to iOS 9
* Caching Server should help reduce load on the network, allowing
for iOS 9 installs to be served from the Caching Server and not the
being pulled from the Internet.
For a refresher on new items in iOS please please visit
http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/
iOS 9 brings some very important updates and improvements around
deployment and management, namely device based app assignment.
* Ability to deploy iOS apps to devices when the App Store is
disabled via a Configuration Profile restriction
* Ability to assign, install and revoke a Volume Purchased app
directly to a device without requiring an Apple ID on the device
* Use an MDM to trigger an iPad install App updates on a device
* Restrict users from changing a device name, or device wall
paper.
* Restrict users from trusting a Enterprise Developer Profile for
3rd party apps (method to bypass the App store and various app
restrictions)
For more information please visit http://www.apple.com/education/it/ &
https://www.apple.com/ipad/business/ios/
**Please note that some of the new management features may require an
update to the Mobile Device Management server. MDM vendors are fast at
work on adding support for new iOS 9 features. Please check with your
vendor for an update.
Is your organization ready for iOS 9? Here is a good checklist for
reference.
https://www.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_9_Checklist_for_IT.pdf
DEP
A new software license agreement and program license agreement will be
introduced in the Device Enrollment Program (DEP) deployment portal on
Wednesday, after iOS 9 is released. DEP program Agents will be required
to log into the deployment website to accept new terms and conditions
before continuing to use the program.
For more information please see this support article:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT203063.
Later this month I will provide an second update on OS X El Capitan,
Apple Configurator 2.0, Xcode 7.0, & Swift 2.0. To provide a little
sneak peek please visit https://developer.apple.com/education/
I’d like to thank you for reading the note. I’d be more than happy
to discuss any items via phone, email or meeting.
Thanks again,
Marc Melkonian, Systems Engineer
Apple Education
Apple Inc.
(425) 445-8763
www.apple.com/education<http://www.apple.com/education>
Jennifer Pavlacky, Account Manager
Apple Education
Apple Inc.
206.743.1974
email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>
Scott Henry, Inside Account Executive
Apple Education
Apple Inc.
800.800.2775 x42866
email@hidden<mailto:email@hidden>
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