Hi, my name is Dean and I'm part of EIS, working in the Technical Support team for over 3 years gaining training and experiences to support and manage schools networks across Kent.
Part of my day to day job is installing and maintaining LightSpeed MDM for schools who wish to manage their IPads this way. This Blog is just a introduction to the new MDM v3 which is due for release on July 1st 2014. When the product is released I will further investigate the pros and cons of the new version.
You may not be aware but LightSpeed are updating their platform to v3.
I haven’t yet had the chance to test and play around with the new platform but during my visit to IT14 I managed to get a closer look into the product from the LightSpeed stand. From my perspective the new version feels and looks modern, and features are now on one page rather than using tabs and pages to display different options.
The new platform uses Charts and graphs to display information about the MDM. For Example you can now view recently added Apps and recently enrolled devices.
According to LightSpeed the following are the main reasons why customers should upgrade:
Managed Distribution – V3 allows you to take advantage of Apple’s managed distribution program to seamlessly pass out and retrieve apps, as well as silently push apps to supervised Devices.
Smart Groups – You’ll automatically get two “smart” (Automatic and dynamic) groups with v3. Such as Teachers and students. This makes it easy to push apps and set Policies based on roles.
Dashboard – Get a snapshot view of your mobile deployment, including recently deployed apps and recently enrolled devices.
For EIS customers the migration will be completed by July 1st 2014. EIS are currently working with LightSpeed so you will not have to do anything. Your login will stay the same but the old MDM website will change from www.lsmdm.com to next.lsmdm.com
According to LightSpeed, v3 is fully supported for IOS7 so any bugs you may have come across hopefully will resolved with the new version.
