Family Sharing = User Profiles?

Does the new Family Sharing in iOS 8 imply individual user profiles for your iPad now???

Nothing in what Apple has said so far about Family Sharing
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/family-sharing/
or any other new feature of iOS 8 implies individual user profiles on an iOS device. But as Philly_Phan said, ask again when Apple has released iOS 8, or at least is close to it being final and hence has discussed the full details.
Regards.

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I don't seem to find how to create more users under my Family Sharing!
I have my daughter who already activated her iPHone but is not under my Family sharing account and she had an iCloud user id already?
Now my son got a new mini ipdad 3 and i don't know if i should create a new user icloud id or keep the account under mine?
how i can add him to my family sharing and keep track of the purchases are made thru the device?
any tips upther for me guys?
Thank you sincerely for your help

Under Settings > iCloud > Family, you should see an Add button. Invite them using the email address they use for their Apple IDs. Yes, your son should have his own ID.

Can anyone help me change the DOB on my sons profile for his apple I'd so I can setup family sharing? I originally put both ids in my name. He is 19 do it keeps saying needs my permission but no instructions in how to get that done?

Can anyone help me change the DOB on my sons profile for his apple I'd so I can setup family sharing? I originally put both ids in my name. He is 19 do it keeps saying needs my permission but no instructions in how to get that done? His phone was stollen once last month need to get this done ASAP to prevent future headaches. Ty

You can not change the date of birth on the account. Apple makes that clear up front when the account is created.
The only way to "fix" this is going to be for him to create a new account with the correct information. Any apps purchased with the old one will need to be re-purchased with the new account. They can not be transferred.

Sharing Music files on the same Mac among user profiles

How can I share music among user profiles on the same Mac? I have an itunes account for me but I don't want my kids to have one yet. So, I want to download music but then share some music files for their itunes on their profile. The Home sharing feature only discusses sharing among different computers on the same network.

Check out:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1203
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090219133314985
and:
http://steve-on-sakai.blogspot.com/2009/07/really-sharing-your-itunes-library.ht ml

Photo Sharing in Separate User Profiles

I have created separate user profiles for my wife and me on our new iMac. I'm returning to Mac after time away, and I cannot remember whether there is a way for us to share the same photos in each separate profile. Thoughts?

iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198

Change apple id for user in Yosemite / adapt according to family sharing

Hi,
I just upgraded to Yosemite (and IOS 8 on the families iPads and iPhones).
Before I had one apple ID used by every user / device. Now I changed to family sharing and have separate apple IDs for every family member. Now I would like to use the same IDs for the corresponding users on the Mac. But I cannot find the place to specify this! On Mountain Lion this should have been set in the settings of the users - but there is no such option now on Yosemite.
Any idea is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Thomas

When you add users, it asks you his iCloud id. I suggest you delete then recreate each user

Shared applications among user profiles?

My wife and I have separate user profiles for our home computer. When I upload photos she can not access them from iPhoto unless she is logged in to my profile. The same is true for me if she uploads photos.
Is there a way for us to have a universal or shared applications (at this time, specifically iPhoto) across multiple profiles?

What you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc. The problem here is that OS X works very hard to keep your data safe and secure from the other users. You're trying to beat what's built in to the system. So, to beat the system
Quit iPhoto in both accounts
Move the iPhoto Library Folder to an external HD set to ignore permissions. You could also use a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.
In each account in turn: Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting dialogue, select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new library location. From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Lastly: This method seems a little clunky at first, but works very well. Most importantly, it uses the System to do the job for you.
Create a new Account on your Mac, call it Media. Create an iPhoto Library there. (BTW: This will work for iTunes too.)
Enable Sharing on the Library:(Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other accounts. In those accounts, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. The Library will appear in the other source pane.
This means that both users will be able to see the pics. If you want to use a pic then simply drag it from the shared Library to your own in the iPhoto Window. This means that each user can have their own edits.
If you want to add photos to the Library: Log into the Media account for that purpose.
To make it all seamless: Set your Mac to log into the Media Account automatically. Set iPhoto to launch on log-in. Then switch to your own account using Fast User Switching.
Net result: a Library that's permanently available to all users but also protected. Each user can have their own versions of the pics if they want.
No partitioning, no permissions issues. Uses no extra disk space. What's not to like?
Regards
TD

Force Active Directory Users to Log Into a Shared Local Profile.

I've searched long and hard for an answer to this but I've found very little info on it so I'm starting to wonder if it's at all possible.
On some of our "Presenter PC's" at work it has been deemed that the creation of a new account from the Default profile takes too long when logging into Active Directory and slows presenting down too much. Our Default profile is probably around 120Mb due to
the contents of the image after deployment and how every application is tailored for use hence the AppData folder takes the bulk of the size up and it's not an option to remove it.
These PC's are (for now at least but hopefully not for much longer) locked down by Deep Freeze which resets all changes to all files when the PC is rebooted so a shared profile is not a problem at this point in time.
What I want to know is whether there is ANY way to make it so that a user authenticating to Active Directory can ALWAYS be forced into a pre-configured, local profile running on Win 7 32/64 Pro?
I've been looking at credential providers and replacing USERINIT.exe. I'm just not 100% sure which part of the process actually tells the PC which profile to use. I know that the registry is checked for the user GUID and if not present creates a new entry and
copies the Default profile but I don't know quite where this is called and how to modify it.
My programming knowledge limited to a bit of CMD and AutoIt but I do know a few coders so if we really have to get our hands dirty on this it isn't the end of the world.
I should also add I've recently been toying with taking the AppData folder outside of the Default profile and creating a SymLink to it but upon copying the Default profile to a new profile (much quicker and more acceptable) the SymLink is lost and replaced
with a relatively empty set of folders which can't be deleted and replaced with a SymLink because the LSASS.exe process is using it and obviously you can't stop that process...
Making the PC log into a local profile on startup is also not an option because a user MUST log into AD to not be in breach of our AUP and all network drives must be availalbe (mapped by GPo and login script).
Any help is more than welcome at this point in time as I've pretty much exhausted all avenues that I know of and have turned to you helpful folk. Cheers

Hi,
For mandatory profile, I suggest you refer to the following articles:
Customize the default local user profile when preparing an image of Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973289
mandatory profiles
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/d2406a55-e053-45c5-b064-bf009c4bfafc
Hope this helps.
Vincent Wang
TechNet Community Support

Family sharing question-after we updated to family sharing, and I have a new apple id, I have found that all the pages documents on my iPad are only accessible if I sign in via the original apple ID- now my husband's( the primary user). is there an e

Hi there,
this is a Family Sharing question. After we upgraded to family sharing, and I now have a new apple id, I find that all the documents on my iPad in pages, are only accessible if i sign in with the original apple id- now my husband's ( he is the primary account holder). Is there an easy way to migrate these documents to my iCloud account, or do i need to email them to myself . There are a couple of hundred documents.
Many thanks in advance.

Thankyou for the reply.
No. I have tried twice. When I turn off pages in the iCloud settings while logged into his account, then my documents in pages just are gone. They return when I turn it back on.
Is there another way I can save them to the device?

Sharing contacts using AirDrop, both users are members of the same Family Sharing group.

I'm asking this question for a friend of mine. He contacted me to help troubleshoot a problem where he was trying to share a contact with his wife using AirDrop. They both have new iPhone 5Ss running iOS 8.1. He can send a contact to his wife's iPhone but she can't send to him. While troubleshooting we noticed we could change the behavoir by changing the settings of who was a Parent/GardIan and who was an Adult in Family Sharing. For example we could change the behaviour so that she could share a contact with him but he could not share with her. We were never able to get it to work where they could share with each other both ways. It was one way only.
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Adding a Yahoo Mail user to Family Sharing?

My child uses Yahoo for mail. How can I establish Family sharing if that is the sole mail application he uses?

Not exactly correct, I believe.
In my case:
1. He established an Apple ID a long time ago.
2. When he received the 'Invitation' by me, the Organizer, to join Family Sharing, he was instructed to open it via iCloud or Apple Mail. He uses Yahoo. I t is as if Yahoo can not direct him to the final destination. I am stumbling in explaining it accurately, I know. Please forgive me.
I think I am explaining this properly. If I am missing something, please feel free to tell me. I would love to learn.
Andy

Multiple Apple IDs, Multiple Apple Devices, Multiple User Profiles, & One Mac

My husband and I recently bought our first mac and iPhones. When we set each of them up I'm not sure we took the best method as far as ease of access to content and simplification. Each iPhone is linked to a separate Apple ID and we have two user accounts on our mac that each use our own Apple IDs. This prevents us from sharing content between devices linked to the other person's Apple ID. Is there a way to overcome this or should we have set up our devices differently? When we got the mac and transferred our music over from our old computer we ended up essentially setting up duplicate files, one for each user profile. We've each purchased items or downloaded digital content on each Apple ID. Is there a simple way to combine all of this content and maintain two user profiles? I'm fine with even reducing our profiles to one if that ultimately simplifies everything and we don't lose anything. However, keeping our iPhones under separate Apple IDs allows for personal settings and downloads. We're also considering buying an iPad. Would registering all of our devices make things easier? How should we have set up our accounts and devices? How can we make things simpler?

You might try setting up iCloud Family. I haven't tried it but I think it could help. https://www.apple.com/icloud/family-sharing/

User Profile Disks with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 VDI

Hello experts!
We are building a new server setup for the office and are unable to figure out why UPD will not work. We have VDI setup and a user for instance
connecting through the RDWeb workplace will dynamically get one of the available Windows 8 Machines delivered through Hyper-V and can successfully login on this machine via Active Directory. So far so good...
However, when we activate the User Profile Disks "UPD" feature the login takes forever and the VHDX will not mount on c:\users\...
as expected within the virtual Windows 8 machine.
The UPD config is quite simple, with just the path "\\vmhost\upd\" set. This share has (now during test) full access for everyone,
both on share level and on security level, but still the VHDX will not mount.
The UVHD-template.vhdx file gets created just fine when UPD is activated, and during login through RDWeb a TEMP-UVHD-S-1-5-21-1477358240-4159876597-995667825-500.vhdx
gets created, but there it stops... The login process takes a couple of minutes by the "Windows förbereds" (roughly translated to English "Preparing Windows"), and then the user gets logged in with a temporary profile.
- The event log says (translated using Google translate):
Failed to obtain a user profile disk for the user account with SID S-1-5-21-1477358240-4159876597-995667825-500.
Make sure the location of the user profile desk can be reached, the server's computer account has read and write permissions to the site and that there is a template file for user profile disks at the site.
Name of the virtual desk"font-size:14px;font-family:'Droid Serif', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;color:#222222;line-height:23px;"
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Please help, it should not be that hard to achieve this.

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Multiple users/profiles, one library?

Until recnetly, my daughter had the only ipod in the family and was the only itunes user. Now the whole family has an ipod. We all have seperate Windows profiles (one for Mom, Dad, daughter, etc.) but want to use one library to store all of our music and control ipod content with playlists. How can we do that? Sharing only seems to work between computers - not user profiles.
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I happened on to this Windows discussion by mistake, but did have the same problem with my Mac... don't know if the solution for the Mac is at all transferable to PC or not, but...
I found my "iTunes Music" folder... in Mac it's in the "music" section of the HD window.
I then moved this folder (containing the music, etc. I want as the main library) to the "shared" folder in the "users" folder in the HD.
I then went to "Preferences>General>iTunes Music folder location" in iTunes and selected "Change" and then found the new location of iTunes Music folder I just moved.
I then went to my wife's profile on our Mac, and repeated the location change in her iTunes preferences.
I then went to File>Add to Library in iTunes and selected the above folderand iTunes imported everything (that had been in my iTunes) into her iTunes.
Don't know if PC is this user-friendly (probably not)... but perhaps this can lead you somewhere.
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IWork, 1 computer, 2 user profiles, both prompted for license...

I recently purchased the Single User iWork 08 for my MacBook Pro. I installed it as one user profile (prompted for Administrator authentication), and completed the installation. When first started up a iWork 08 application I was prompted for the license key, which I entered... I later quit the application.
I logged out and logged in as another user profile on the MacBook Pro and attempted to start one of the iWork applications, and was surprised to get the license key prompt again.
Where does the license key have to be located so that all my user profiles on my MacBook Pro no longer get prompted for the key?
Thanks!

I think you probably went wrong when you checked the single profile / user box on installation; whether this can be corrected through Preferences or require reinstallation I don't know. Copied below is an extract of the licence agreement which refers to the number of computers rather than the number of profiles used on each, so I think you should be OK- you may however need to re-install.
B. iWork Single User License. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software (whether trial or full version) on a single Apple-
labeled computer at a time. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple
Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time. You may make one copy of the Apple Software in
machine-readable form for backup purposes only; provided that the backup copy must include all copyright or other proprietary notices contained on the
original.
C. iWork Family Pack License. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of ﬁve (5) Apple-labeled
computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household. By "household"
we mean a person or persons sharing the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home or condominium. This license does not extend to
students who reside at a separate on-campus location or to business or commercial users. You may not make the Apple Software available over a network.

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