![]() As the Summer holidays interrupted my work on this (not contracted for school holidays) I only got back to this issue on Thursday. No MDM Server: iPads come back to the office to be adjusted I have a mixture of iPads in school ranging from iPad 2s (capped at iOS 9.3.5) to Air 2s (ongoing support). Is it the pre-MacOS Server blueprint I'm using - does that need updating now there is a caching server? ![]() So why the heck are they all 'waiting' when other apps aren't, and why do they pull directly down from the App store on the iPad OK but not through Configurator 2 all of a sudden? I have two apps which fail to install on the older iPads because they require a later iOS version, but Configurator warns me about those and I just skip them without any issue. I tried adding one of the greyed-out apps directly through the Add > App option in Configurator 2: that worked fine. I disabled the caching server entirely: same result. So I cleared out the cached files and tried again. So the only thing that has changed between iPads building successfully and not is the addition of MacOS Server. on every single iPad: the whole point of setting up Apple Configurator with a caching server was to reduce the amount of time I had to spend with the iPads, not increase it. But I don't really want to do this for every. Deleted it and reinstalled it by downloading it directly from the App store: it worked. Tapped on one in the hope it would begin installing. I looked deeper into one of the folders to find.this: Why are some of these blacked out? I wondered. I deployed my usual blueprint and the iPads started to build. After a couple of teething problems to do with firewalls, it started working and caching all the iOS and app builds. So I looked into what the solution would be, purchased MacOS Server and set up the caching server. I've slogged my way through Apple Configurator 2's not-quite-intuitive process of iPad building and had everything work properly for the thirty-or-so iPads in school, but it was a right pain to have it constantly downloading iOS and Apps for every single iPad it built, time and time again.
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