alibertiw01: Bulk collection of iOS device details for Enterprise deployment

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Bulk collection of iOS device details for Enterprise deployment

The school I work for just took delivery of approximately fifty iPad's that required setup. One of the steps involved is collection of the Airport MAC address in order to permit them to connect to our wireless network.

Unfortunately, this isn't printed on the box, and Apple's iPhone Configuration Utility offers no way to do a bulk export particular details beyond the UDID of an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.

I worked out how to do so on the command line and want to document the knowledge, as pasting them one at a time from IPCU isn't practical for any large scale deployments and I've seen no reference anywhere online to find out where iPhone Configuration Utility obtains its information. I first ran iTunes in activation-only mode to activate the devices. You can enable this mode by entering the following command in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes StoreActivationMode -integer 1

I then connected each iPad while iTunes was runnin ...