No more manual profile reinstall or reporting LAN IP?
I use Meraki Systems manager to manage over 3000 iOS devices for a school district. I mostly like it.
However, two latest versions of the iOS app removed some useful functionality:
1) Removed the option in the app to manually reinstall the management profile. This was very useful for the occasional device that just stops communicating with the MDM server for no apparent reason. Since were using Meraki in conjunction with Apples Device Enrollment Program, this means if a device needs the profile reinstalled, I now have two choices: wipe the device completely, or if its not on the current iOS version, put it in recovery mode, upgrade it with iTunes, and hope that fixes it.
2) Even with the app open in the foreground, it no longer reports the local LAN IP to the Meraki management console website - just the public IP. When our WAN has 16 campuses all on separate subnets, that was a useful functionality for tracking device location in the console. Since the app wont give GPS location unless its in the foreground, I have to assign the device to a profile that puts it in single app mode locked into the Meraki app in order to even say more than, "Yup, its somewhere on our network."
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