AppleTV

Onscreen Passcode and Configurator support for AppleTV Deployments. With the lat­est release of both AppleTV 5.1 and iOS 6 Apple takes steps to pro­vide bet­ter enter­prise sup­port for the AppleTV. In an ear­lier post (Con­sid­er­a­tions for deploy­ing the AppleTV in your school or enter­prise) I pointed out that there needed to be bet­ter options for cen­tral­ized man­age­ment and a more robust way to deal with pass­words.

Apple’s taken steps to improve both of these. Prior to the 5.1 update you could set a pass­word to con­trol Air­Play access to your AppleTV. Once entered into the iPad the pass­word was stored in the device. With the 5.1 release Apple has intro­duced an onscreen pass­code that is required to before you can begin Air­Play­ing to the device. One early con­cern we had dur­ing test­ing was the con­nec­tion time-out between the AppleTV and the con­nected iPad. The addi­tion of Con­fig­u­ra­tor sup­port for the AppleTV is a good first step in pro­vid­ing enter­prise con­fig­u­ra­tion sup­port.

ATV_passcode. AirParrot - AirPlay your Mac or PC's screen to AppleTV. Considerations for deploying the AppleTV in your school or enterprise. AppleTV is awe­some! I’ve had one in my home for years and I am really excited about what you can do with these devices and par­tic­u­larly Air­Play. We are begin­ning to look at using the AppleTV in our school as part of our iPad deploy­ment but much like the iPads them­selves we are in the posi­tion of try­ing to fig­ure out how to deploy and man­age a con­sumer device in the enter­prise (schools to all of you). The rea­son for con­sid­er­ing the use of the AppleTV in the class­room has every­thing to do (for us) with Air­Play.

The abil­ity to give any stu­dent the oppor­tu­nity to share what they are doing on their device with the class and demon­strate their learn­ing is amaz­ing — - can you say bye-bye Smartboards! But as I play with this idea and dis­cuss it with my col­leagues there are some man­age­ment issues and ques­tions that I have. 1. As it stands, in order to set the name or pass­word to the device you need to be in the room with that device. 2. 3. 4.