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Re: Apple Licensing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Webster)
Fri Sep 14 12:36:31 2012
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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:34:32 -0400
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From: Chris Webster <chris.webster@ncsu.edu>
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I seem to recall a discussion either on the list or at the conference
this year about how people were handling this. Something about having
a unique Apple ID for each device, that way you could give the user
the password without compromising your master account. Not sure if
that would work in this scenario or not, though, as I don't know much
about how the App Store stuff actually works.
-Chris
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Eric Lemmons <eric.lemmons@acu.edu> wrote:
> One of this issues I believe we're trying to deal with, though, is that if
> the user were to then leave the University we have no way to recoup that
> software license.
>
> For example, let's say we use the VPP to purchase a handful of Final Cut Pro
> licenses ($299 each) for some of our marketing folks. If one of them leaves
> for another job the next month, they walk away with a $299 piece of software
> that under traditional licensing we would keep. Is this just something we
> have to deal with? Am I missing a crucial part of the process somewhere?
>
> Thanks for all the input!
>
> -Eric
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Jack Vizelter <jack@mail.rockefeller.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> I believe I had inquired of this a year ago when Lion was released. As
>> Jeremy points out, you’ll need to go through the volume purchasing program
>> and purchase ‘x’ amount of copies/licenses for the software you want and
>> you’d get redemption codes for that software. You would then give one of
>> these codes to your end-user who will need to use their own Apple-ID account
>> to download the software by entering this redemption code.
>>
>>
>>
>> -jack
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeremy
>> Mlazovsky
>> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 11:21 AM
>> To: RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Apple Licensing
>>
>>
>>
>> Someone her on-campus who dealt with this said the following:
>>
>>
>>
>> "So, the answer to this is the Apple Volume Purchase Program (VPP):
>> http://www.apple.com/education/volume-purchase-program/
>>
>>
>>
>> Right at this moment, I don't have time to lay out exactly how I'd
>> architect a setup to achieve their goals, but it is possible. The key is
>> that all Apple ID's used on university-owned devices should be run through
>> VPP - don't use personal Apple IDs."
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeremy Mlazovsky '02
>>
>> Director of Information Technology
>>
>> College of Arts and Sciences
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Eric Lemmons <eric.lemmons@acu.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Good morning folks. One of our desktop support folks sent me the following
>> email to pass on to y'all. I know we've had discussions about this
>> before...has anyone had any luck working with Apple on this? Are we missing
>> something? Thanks for the help!
>>
>>
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>
>> Eric,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have a favor to request of you.
>>
>>
>>
>> We currently use a "techadmin" App Store/iTunes account to buy software
>> from the App Store. We are trying to figure out how to buy that software
>> through the App Store so that it's not tied to our techadmin account (that
>> way users can update their software when they need to) but also not tied to
>> the user's account (so that we are not giving them free software that they
>> can then re-download if they were to leave the university). Giving them the
>> techadmin account password is obviously a bad idea. Also, if we download
>> using the techadmin account, we are paying for one product license, which
>> means downloading with the same account on a different machine does not
>> charge us for another product license and thus putting us out of licensing
>> compliance, something we need to avoid. We have emailed our Apple Rep, but
>> haven't heard anything back yet. It was also suggested that we have you
>> email the Institutional Helpdesk...people--I'm not sure I'm getting the name
>> right. We can't be the only university having this trouble.
>>
>>
>>
>> So, would you please email whomever you need to to find out what other
>> universities are doing?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Keith
>>
>>
>>
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