How to stop automatic updates on ipads using profile manager

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How to stop automatic updates on ipads using profile manager

Hi,

Our school has 90 ipads and we manage them just through profile manager on osx server.

Now that everything is setup and running correctly we are experiencing huge data usage, it is blowing out our capped plan.

The 90 ipads combined use around 40GB a day. (approx 35 apps on each)

how can we stop auto uodates/ curb this amount of data usage. Is there anyway to make them all update from the osx server rather than downloading their own updates from apple?

Posted on Jun 19, 2016 5:01 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 21, 2016 5:14 PM in response to prescottsouthern

Osx server, caching server. google it , turn it on.

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Answer 2

Jun 21, 2016 5:17 PM in response to vincerivers

hi, i have now turned the caching service on, however many of the iPads enrolled in the server seem to not be using it anyway.

Is there any way to make sure the iPads are using the OS X caching server?

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Answer 3

Jun 22, 2016 4:01 PM in response to prescottsouthern

In the sever app go to logs , choose caching log and you'll see a log entry that says that it served XXMegabyte from cache.

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Answer 4

Jun 22, 2016 4:11 PM in response to RiversTechoffice

Thanks guys, the OSX server is pushing updates from the cache , as mentioned above in the logs it is serving at least some of the iPads. The only thing that confuses me is that some iPads are still getting app updates from apple. I can see it happening in our internet filter.

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Answer 5

Jun 23, 2016 5:33 AM in response to prescottsouthern

The first initial download of the app or app updates will be from the internet. Then when another device request the same app the caching server will be used.

Make sure your devices are updated to at least iOS 7 and OSX Mountain Lion for the caching service to work.

If you are looking at your internet filter it may still show that its connecting to apples servers because the device still uses the app store severs to check to see if an update is needed or people browsing the app store.

Content types supported by the Caching service in OS X Server - Apple Support

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