Battery life is the bane of portable electronic devices, and though both the iPad and the iPhone score pretty well in this area, you’ll want to make sure that your network’s users get as much battery life as possible. This means conditioning the battery at the start of the device’s life and teaching the users…
In this post, we’ll look quickly at planning how the iPad and iPhone will connect to your Virtual Private Network (VPN). We’ll start by reviewing the VPN technologies the iPad and iPhone support, talk about settings you may need to change to make your VPN friendly to the iPad and iPhone, and finish by considering…
The iPod Touch is basically an iPhone clone sans the cellular and SMS functions. Of course, the iPhone costs $100 more for the unit itself and requires an ongoing service to be used for that end. While most everyone and their mothers likely has a cell phone and an accompanying service for it, it still…
When you need to get documents onto the iPad or iPhone quickly, you can simply e-mail them to an account n t iPad or iPhone. You can then open the documents directly from the e-mail. E-mail may seem like a kludgy solution to document transfer but it’s effective both for personal use and enterprise use–up…
To keep the iPhone running smoothly, it’s a good idea to update them to the latest versions of iOS soon after Apple releases them. New versions can contain bug fixes, new features, or both. To update the iPod and iPhone, you use iTunes. CAUTION: As you’ll know from the excitement about iPhone 5 prototypes that…
Usually, installing a configuration profile on an iPad or iPhone with iPhone Configuration Utility is straightforward–but as at any time software meets hardware, errors can occur. Here are three errors that pop up pretty frequently and that you may need to deal with. “Unexpected Error from Your Mobile Device” Message The message “iPhone Configuration Utility…
You can set up the iPad or iPhone to connect to a calendaring server that uses the CalDAV protocol so that the device’s Calendar app can exchange claender data with the server. Click the CalDAV item in the Payloads list to display the Configure CalDAV box, and then click the Configure button. Follow these steps…
Another way of applying a configuration profile to an iPad or iPhone is via e-mail. As long as the device already has an e-mail account set up, this is easy for both you (the administrator) and the user. So once you’ve set up your iPads and iPhone with e-mail (perhaps by applying a profile directly),…
