In this section, we're going to explore Apple configurator, Apple configurator two is the latest version
as of the time that this was recorded and provides a lot of options for manually managing and setting
up iPads.
They're particularly great for Cartes.
We have a lot of devices that are being wheeled around from classroom to classroom or shared devices
that might be in, say, a hospitality industry like, you know, restaurant menus or hotel kiosks where
someplace where you want all your devices to be the same or you're managing groups of devices that are
used for the same purpose.
So to get started, we're going to go out to the App Store to download Apple Configurator and we'll
just search for that.
Here's Apple configurator two and we'll just click on that.
So you have to have a Mac to use Apple configurator.
I'm going to go ahead and install it here.
All right, it's done in Starling's, we'll go ahead, just open it up.
When you first launch Apple Configurator, it wants to know if you want to take a quick tour.
We're going to skip that and we're just going to say get started.
Now that we have Apple configurator to install, we're going to install one additional optional installation,
which is this automation tools under the Apple configurator to menu.
And this is going to put in CFG util, which is a command line configuration utility that is included
with configurator.
So I'm going to go ahead and install their will.
Authenticate.
And now it's installed.
So you can see on SOL automation tools are there.
Go ahead and visit the terminal by minimizing.
Apple configurator.
Open up the terminal and then I'm listening to the man page for CFT Util.
So this will give you step by step information on iOS device management and what you can use of util
to do along with all the commands here.
So I won't read these through, but you can go through and look at them on your own.
We may or may not use some of these command line utilities at a later date in upcoming tutorials, but
I do want to make sure that this is available because this may be something that would be useful for
you, depending on what your overall goal is for deploying these iPads and iOS devices.