This is another thread relating to my job at that electronics recycling/reselling company, but since this involves working with a specific Mac application, I'm going to talk about it here, compared to THIS thread I've previously been talking about my job at (due to my main work computer there being a late 2009 21" iMac)...
We often get a LOT of iPads from school districts at this job, and we have to wipe/reset them for resell. But with some, they have a passcode/activation lock on them to prevent being reset, and when we use iTunes we can only reset one iPad at a time. So my boss's assistant got the bright idea of using Apple Configurator 2 for wiping/resetting multiple iPads at once! But since it's Mac-only, that's where I come in, being the Mac expert on the job!
We took one of the many MacBook Airs we had in storage to possibly resell and they had me install a Mac OS version on its' internal SSD, so we can use this to reset/wipe iPads with! Because this is a mid-2013 MacBook Air, I found I could actually install Mac OS 11 Big Sur on it! So I did, using one of the USB installers I created for such an occasion (I actually made the Big Sur installers on my own M1 MacBook Air!)
Installing an update after the Mac OS 11 install is completed. After that, I downloaded Apple Configurator 2 from the Mac App Store and installed it on the Air. (I set the MacBook Air up with no Apple ID and an easy-to-remember password so multiple employees can use it to reset iPads with, though I did have to log into the Mac App Store and log out again with my Apple ID in order to download the app.)
Of course, this MacBook Air only has two USB 3.0 ports, but we have a few such USB hubs around that can be used to reset many iPads with. And then later this week, we should be getting another shipment of Mac laptops, and while most of them we'll prepare to resell, we're going to keep a few of them here for me to set up (anything 2012 or newer) for us to reset/wipe iPads with so we don't have just one Mac laptop on hand for the job.
We often get a LOT of iPads from school districts at this job, and we have to wipe/reset them for resell. But with some, they have a passcode/activation lock on them to prevent being reset, and when we use iTunes we can only reset one iPad at a time. So my boss's assistant got the bright idea of using Apple Configurator 2 for wiping/resetting multiple iPads at once! But since it's Mac-only, that's where I come in, being the Mac expert on the job!
We took one of the many MacBook Airs we had in storage to possibly resell and they had me install a Mac OS version on its' internal SSD, so we can use this to reset/wipe iPads with! Because this is a mid-2013 MacBook Air, I found I could actually install Mac OS 11 Big Sur on it! So I did, using one of the USB installers I created for such an occasion (I actually made the Big Sur installers on my own M1 MacBook Air!)
Installing an update after the Mac OS 11 install is completed. After that, I downloaded Apple Configurator 2 from the Mac App Store and installed it on the Air. (I set the MacBook Air up with no Apple ID and an easy-to-remember password so multiple employees can use it to reset iPads with, though I did have to log into the Mac App Store and log out again with my Apple ID in order to download the app.)
Of course, this MacBook Air only has two USB 3.0 ports, but we have a few such USB hubs around that can be used to reset many iPads with. And then later this week, we should be getting another shipment of Mac laptops, and while most of them we'll prepare to resell, we're going to keep a few of them here for me to set up (anything 2012 or newer) for us to reset/wipe iPads with so we don't have just one Mac laptop on hand for the job.