Apple Configurator Update Brings Improved Configuration and MDM Enrollment of Apple TV

Apple has released a minor update to Apple Configurator that brings improved configuration and MDM enrollment of Apple TV.

Apple Configurator makes it easy for anyone to mass configure and deploy iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in a school, business, or institution. Three simple workflows let you prepare new iOS devices for immediate distribution, supervise devices that need to maintain a standard configuration, and assign devices to users. Quickly update your devices simultaneously to the latest version of iOS, configure settings, and install apps and data for your students, employees, or patrons.

Apple Configurator can be used by larger organizations and businesses to set up new devices, install enterprise apps, and enroll each device with a Mobile Device Management solution for remote management by an IT administrator. It is perfect for the classroom or student lab where devices need to be quickly refreshed and kept up to date with the correct settings, approved policies, apps and data. Apple Configurator can also be used to personalize devices with data and documents for specific users.

Prepare devices
• Configure multiple devices simultaneously
• Update devices to the latest version of iOS
• Create and restore a backup of settings and app data from one device to other devices
• Import apps into Apple Configurator and sync them to new devices*
• Use the built-in editor to create and install iOS configuration profiles
• Enroll devices with your Mobile Device Management solution for remote management

Supervise devices
• Organize supervised devices into custom groups
• Automatically apply common configurations to supervised devices
• Quickly reapply a configuration to a supervised device and remove the previous user’s data
• Import apps into Apple Configurator and sync them to supervised devices*
• Define and apply common or sequential names to all devices
• Restrict supervised devices from syncing with other computers

Assign devices
• Add users and groups manually or autopopulate via Open Directory or Active Directory
• Check out a device to a user and restore the user’s settings and data on that device
• Check in a device from a user and and back up the data for later use, possibly on a different device
• Apply custom text, wallpaper, or the user’s picture to a device’s Lock screen
• Import and export documents between your Mac and Apple Configurator
• Sync documents between assigned devices and Apple Configurator

What's New In This Version:

Apple Configurator 1.4.2 contains improvements and bug fixes including:

• Improved configuration and MDM enrollment of Apple TV

It also includes the following changes from Apple Configurator 1.4.1:

• Configure which Setup Assistant steps will display during device setup

• Enroll multiple unsupervised devices in MDM without tapping each device using a new Setup tab in Prepare

• Complete Setup Assistant and enroll Apple TV in MDM without using the remote

• Improved UI for installing a single profile on unsupervised devices

• Support for new iOS 7 features and restrictions, including:

• Allow modifying account settings

• Allow AirDrop

• Allow connecting supervised devices to any Mac

• Configure Web Content Filter

• Configure AirPlay mirroring destinations and passwords

• Configure AirPrint printers

• Configure Managed Open In

• Allow Control Center or Notification Center on lock screen

• Configure Limit Ad Tracking setting

• Install fonts

You can download Apple Configurator from the App Store for free.

How to Turn Off Automatic App Updates in iOS 7

Automatic Updates is a feature that came along with iOS 7 which allows updates to installed apps to download and install themselves, allowing for a very hands-off approach to the app updating process. For many users this is a good thing to leave on, since it takes the hassle out of updating and managing your apps, and you’ll only have to use the App Store to download new apps instead. But automatic updates are not always a desirable feature for all users for a variety of reasons, whether you’re trying to squeezes maximum performance out of a device, reduce overall network bandwidth used by an iPhone or iPad, or perhaps you’d just prefer to control the app updating process yourself. If you’d rather have apps not update themselves in the background, you can take a moment to turn the feature off.

Stop Apps Updating Themselves Automatically

• Open Settings and go to “iTunes & App Store”
• Scroll down to the “Automatic Downloads” section
• Toggle “Updates” to OFF to stop apps automatically updating

That’s it, no more automatic app updates, no more surprises when opening apps to find things have changed. Remember, with this feature turned OFF you will need to use the App Store to handle updates yourself, similar to how it was done in the past with all iOS releases pre-7.0.

Turning off Automatic Updates has a few additional side benefits too; it can help increase battery life, and it can also help to speed up iOS 7 equipped devices a bit, particularly older models. Both benefits are a result of reducing background activity and resource usage, and though the newest model iPhone and iPad devices may not notice them quite so much, they can still offer a nice increase to performance all around.

Use Automatic Updates from Wi-Fi Only

If you’d prefer to leave automatic updating on for wi-fi only while preventing it from happening over a cellular data connection, you can do that too with a simple adjustment within the “iTunes & App Store” settings: simply keep Automatic Downloads “Updates” toggled to ON, but toggle “Use Cellular Data” to OFF. Unless you have an unlimited cellular data plan with your iPhone or iPad, it’s probably a good idea to keep cellular data updating completely off.

Will this Stop the Random Blue Dots Next to App Names? Yes, this will stop the blue dot from randomly appearing next to app names on your iOS home screen. For those who weren’t aware, the blue dot is an indicator that an app has been updated, or that an app is new to the device, but it has also caused a ton of confusion for many users who wonder why on earth a mysterious blue dot seems to show up alongside app names for seemingly no apparent reason.

Turning off automatic updates will prevent it from showing up at random, and instead the blue dot will only appear when you have updated an app yourself, or downloaded something new from the App Store. You can not disable the blue dot completely.

Apple Online Store Goes Down Ahead Of Today’s iPad Event

Apple to broadcast special media event today via Apple TV, Safari browsers

“Apple will webcast today’s special event at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT today from the Yerba Buena Vista Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California via Apple TV.

Expected at today’s special event: new iPad, new iPad mini, bother featuring Touch ID, an 64-bit Apple A7X chips, along with info about Mac Pro and OS X Mavericks releases or release dates, an updated iPod touch, and possibly more.

Apple will also webcast to Safari users on OS X and iOS here. Live Streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later. 

www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2013/

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Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad Problems

If you are unable to type letters, numbers, or symbols, you may have Mouse Keys enabled on a keyboard that has no numeric keypad or Num Lock key.


It happen to me this week, I was entering a password which had numerical numbers and I was using the numerical pad on the right side of my keyboard and I kept getting the wrong password message. I used the numbers above the letters on the keyboard and they worked. 


So I thought I had a bad keyboard, until I did a simple search and there it was at Apple support, "Unable to type while Mouse Keys is enabled in Mac OS X" posted December 05, 2011. 


Seams like I wasn't the only one having this problem.


Quick fix:
  

1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
2. Choose Universal Access from the View menu.
3. Click the Mouse tab or in Lion Click Mouse & Trackpad
4. Click Off, next to Mouse Keys.  If you have already logged in as a different user where Mouse Keys is disabled, click On and then click Off next to Mouse Keys, to return the keyboard to normal operation.

Note: You may also check/uncheck the box for "Press Option key five times to turn Mouse Keys on or off". 

Note: If you are logged on to a user where Mouse Keys is already disabled, but your keyboard is not responding properly, toggle the radio buttons for Mouse Keys "On" then "Off" to restore normal functionality.