how can i transfer my installation of Apple Configurator from one Mac to another?

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how can i transfer my installation of Apple Configurator from one Mac to another?

I work at a secondary school in the UK. We currently have 20ish ipads, all configured and supervised through Apple configurator. As the mac we were using is rather old, we bought a new one, and I need to transfer all the apple configurator date from the old one to the new one.

I tried using the information from this page: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5194?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

I don't want to do a full restore from the old to the new as the old one has so much extra stuff on its HDD that isn't necessary any more. I only want to transfer the configurator data across so that I can plug our ipads into the new mac and they will work as before.

Is this possible?

Thanks.

OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

Posted on Jun 5, 2014 2:38 AM

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schoolofluck

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Jun 5, 2014 12:48 PM in response to mgreenhbs

The Apple Document covers this. See the footnotes of my google docs

I've done this, it is easy, but takes time and patience.

On the existing mac with OSX and Configurator:

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- run disk utility and verify your disks are ok, a must

- make note of the user logged in when using configurator such as "bob"

- connect a new or newly reformatted USB formatted for Apple

- run time machine and backup to the USB

- Take the mac off the network,

- Buy a new mac

- setup the mac with a new logon account like Paul or "bob2" do not use BOB !!

- finish the new purchase setup, get to your desktop

- now run the migraiton assistant moving bob from the USB to the new mac

- reboot, logon as bob, launch configurator and connect just one ipad. Test

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SMBgyzONxcx6_FswgkW9XYLpA4oCt_2y1uw9ceMZ9F4/ edit?usp=sharing

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mgreenhbs Author

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Jun 6, 2014 4:34 AM in response to schoolofluck

Fantastic! This solved my problem perfectly. Thank you very much for your help.

Also, great document. I wish I'd had that a year ago when we started deploying ipads.

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Jun 6, 2014 3:17 PM in response to mgreenhbs

I agree... that's a wonderful document. Thanks schoolofluck for sharing that.

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