Chapter 2. Purchasing and Activating

One of the most frustrating aspects of deploying a large fleet of iOS-based devices is just getting them all set up and configured. As mentioned in Chapter 1, this involves configuring the device with each setting for the user, installing the applications, and configuring each of those with the settings required. Before you can do any of this, you must first plug each device into iTunes and activate it. And before you can do that, you have to buy the devices.

As with everything involving computing en masse, purchasing can be a nightmare, because buying even small items can mean that you just overspent by a sum magnified by the number of units being acquired. Therefore, this chapter starts by having you look ...

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