Speakers: Jesse Smillie
Level: Presentation
Excerpt: Over view of how Gateway School District moved from JAMF Pro to Mosyle Manager in April 2020 while also moving to K-8 1:1 across the district. Will go through some of the methods we use to prepare iPads for handouts, handle breakage, and general support. Methods including utilizing the MosyleAPI and MOSBasic command line (home baked Mosyle CLI.)
Description: Gateway School District has been on a wild roller coaster of highs and lows of 1:1 deployments for years now. Previous deployments strategies presented at MacAdmins in 2019 for our 1:1s in grades 5-8 completely revamped to go K-8 with only months to plan. Further adding to the steep drops on this coaster starting a migration away from JAMFPro to Mosyle Manager in late Feburary 2020 for all district Macs and iPads.
Since moving we’ve refined our craft. We will show you how we utilize Mosyle Limbo mode to prepare iPads a head of time before hand out to slim out the demand on our Wifi network during deployments. How Limbo mode is also utilized to replace Shared mode iPads in our loaner program (you know when things get broke…) We will go through how we utilize the MosyleAPI to get a head of problems by querying device groups. GSD also has started work back in September 2021 on a command line tool called MOSBasic which is a homebrew solution not necessarily for a problem but to do more faster. Things like: mass deployment/assign devices, work with lost mode, generate reports on what devices are in lost mode, and output general info.
All of this will be rounded out with explaining how you can leverage CFGUTIL, command line utility backed into Apple Configurator 2, to easily reprovision deployed iPads and get them back to Limbo state and ready for the next user with minimal clicking on your part..
About the speaker
Jesse Smillie
Mac Administrator for GSD since 1999.
ACMT since 2005
Solo Apple Tech until Sept 2021
Presenter at PSU MacAdmins 2019
“Ask Apple: Mosyle Spotlight” Presenter April 2021
Drinker of the Apple Kool Aide and future Mosyle Cult member