Apple ID for Business Use

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Apple ID for Business Use

We wanna roll-out 130 Iphones and 130 Ipads in our company, and there is one open point.

Normally we use one Apple-ID for every Device, so we are saving the registration/administration of 130 Apple-IDs. We have the control of downloaded apps. Not every user has a credit-card or company credit card.

But what´s not so smart to this solution?

Facetime and imessage isn´t working with this, because the classification will change with every new Device. With installing of a new device, apple sent Messages, that a new number/email was added to this account to some device.

What can we do? We wanna use facetime and imessage?

Thanks in advanced for your help

Best Regards

Roshan

iPad, iOS 6.1.3

Posted on May 27, 2013 6:02 AM

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TechRider

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May 27, 2013 10:30 AM in response to Ulla-Popken

An AppleID can be used for many services (e.g. iTunes and the App store, iMessage, Facetime, iCloud, Home Sharing, , etc...) or it can be used for a single or select number of services.

Therefore you could create a policy/process for employees to create at least one personal AppleID for themselves (it could be their company email address so that its usefullness is tied to their employment, or it could be their personal email address) to be used with services like iMessage, Facetime, and iCloud - separating the AppleID for these services from the AppleID used with iTunes and the App Store.

I personally use 2 AppleIDs - one for iTunes and App Store, and one for all other services.

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