Once the VPP Application Orders have been allocated to the device fleet and end-‐users have been notified, the VPP Application Deployment is in effect. During this period, you can use the Orders page in the Admin Console to manage and monitor the status of their application deployment.
From the Orders page in the Admin Console you can: View the Order Status:
• The order has recently been uploaded to MDM and is awaiting approval before beginning allocation to end-‐users.
• The order has been approved, but has not been allocated throughout the device fleet or end-‐users notified.
• The order has been approved by Apple, allocated to the device fleet and end-‐users have been notified.
View the Order Redemption Status:
• See total number of Purchased application vouchers, the number of Redeemed vouchers that have been used by end-‐users and number of Remaining vouchers that end-‐users can still redeem in the future.
From the Products View on the Orders page in the Admin Console you can:
• Activate or Deactivate VPP Product Orders for redemption:
o The Green and Red dots in the status category indicate Active and Inactive VPP Product Orders respectively.
• To toggle between an active and inactive status, click the dots. • Re-‐notify end-‐users.
From the Licenses view on the Orders page in the Admin Console you can: View each Individual License Status:
• The license has not been used by the end-‐user but is available for redemption. • The license belongs to a VPP Product Order with an Inactive status. The license
information is still in the MDM system and can be set to Active for later redemption.
• The license was redeemed by a device that is not under MDM.
• The license was redeemed by a managed device through MDM. View the License User and Date Redeemed:
Licenses with a redeemed status have the fields for Assigned To and Date Redeemed indicating the User Account who purchased the application and the date at which he/she purchased it.
MANAGE APPLE VPP IBOOKS
MDM offers a robust solution to Apple Volume Purchase Program (VPP) for iBooks management and distribution. The administrators of educational institutions can purchase books as iBook titles through Apple's VPP program and provide access to these purchased iBook to their students of correct User Groups and devices. The process of leveraging to automate and simplify the iBook distribution process is same as the process involved in distributing applications.
The process of getting an iBook order approved for distribution and its license for allocation is same as the process involved for Apple VPP Applications.
The below instructions provide you an overview for deploying a purchased iBook to the device fleet. 1. Navigate to Catalog ► Applications and select Purchased from the menu on the left. 2. Click [Add Order].
The Add Order screen appears.
3. Select the product type as Book.
The Add Order form displays asking you to upload an order .csv file provided by Apple.
NOTE: The Add Order screen can be launched from Add Order action on the Purchased Book
screen or the Orders screen.
4. Once you have uploaded appropriate .csv file, click [Save] to proceed to the Product Selection form.
Once the .csv file is validated for the correct iBook, information such as description, image thumbnail, price, version, and category is pulled using the search/lookup API for the product purchased through Apple’s VPP program.
5. Click Edit Assignment from the Actions menu on the Orders page and fill in the required fields in the form.
• Location Group – Admin can add one or more location groups to which the purchased books
need to be assigned.
• Licenses – Enter the number of licenses that need to be allocated.
• Deployment – The deployment can be configured either to Auto or On-‐Demand mode. NOTE: The total of all allocated licenses across all location groups cannot exceed total licenses available.
If the On Demand deployment method is selected and the Selected User option is activated, the admin can specify one or more users in the location group to which the iBook needs to be assigned.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
• Administrator can upload a .csv file for a new iBook VPP order from Apple and select the appropriate iBook for assignment to one or more location groups.
• Administrator can assign an iBook order across multiple location groups using Auto deployment mode. • Administrator can assign an iBook order across multiple locations groups using On Demand
deployment mode and select a set of users for each location group who need to download the iBook. • To clearly distinguish the products for applications and iBooks and to have the accessibility to view, edit, and delete iBooks, the administrator can use Books page by navigating to Catalog ► Books.
o All the orders associated with iBooks are identified with a unique order type called Books. o All the products associated with iBooks are identified with a unique product type called Books.