Setting up a rollout.

Is there a best practices guide to rolling out an iPad implementation? We are rolling out 30 ipads and I am sure it will snowball. Looking to head off any headaches by doing the set up right from the launch. We are a windows platform school.

We are doing an iPad pilot this year as well at my school. We purchased the Brettford cart, which holds 30 ipads and comes with charging stations for each of the ipads, and direct connectivity to the main computer managing the iPads, through one usb cable. We are obviously very early in our pilot, but have been very heppy with the cart as a part of the implementation. As far as managing the iPads, I would agree with gyrhead in that creating one school account for your apple purchases is a best practice. We created an acount [email protected] to cover all of our digital content, meaning that we can do our licenses for our desktops under that account as well. After hearing several horror stories of iTunes accounts/Apple accounts getting hacked, I would strongly recommend creating your account like we did. We created a new account, but used a gift card to create the account. This prevents a credit card from being associated with the account, so that if someone were to hack the school's apple account, they can only get as much as we have available on the gift card.
The next issue after the cart is rolled out is how to manage projects from a device meant for a single user, but shared amongst multiple students. We created a system for saving all fo the projects like this: "flastname##" (first initial last name) "Class Name" "Per. #" On the iPads, I used the iPhone configuration utility available for free download from apple right here: iphone config that link is for installing it on a windows machine. They have it available also for a mac machine. This will allow you to setup all of the wifi credentials in mass, setup whatever security settings you would like to have, restrictions and what we like, the mail setup.
After some testing, we are happy with how we setup email for the iPad cart. I created a generic email address for the cart: [email protected] and have it set to be a receive only account. How I did that was simply entering in an incorrect password for the incoming mail server. Then for the smtp server I put in the correct credentials. I could definitely get into more of the nitty gritty details on the rules I setup for my teacher accounts, so the emails are all automaticaly placed according to the class and period they are received, but do not want to be-labor this any more than is helpful. You can check out our blog documenting our roll-out if you would like: vcmsipad.blogspot.com

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All-
I need some information / lessons learned on cataloging BC sets on the Configuration Tab for a Template Project. If you have used this functionality (i.e. recorded the config values, packaged them up in SOLAR02, and executed them for subsequent projects) I'd like to know.
What were the implications? Was it worth it?

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For rollout BC SET implementation will be followed for SAP FI. Please provide details what means by this and how to go for FI.
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Edited by: SAMEERFICO on Apr 4, 2011 3:30 PM

Hello Nureya,
Business Configuration Sets (BC Sets) are the collection of Customizing settings. This is mostly used in Global rollout project where the same kind of customization is required but with different data.
In standard SAP system, BC Sets are available for some settings also you can create your own BC sets. When you create BC sets at that time system will copy the original customization table settings in BC sets table which you can use later.
The loading of BC Sets is logged by the system, i.e. which BC Set was copied when into the system, and any errors which occurred. This information is significant for Continuous Change and Upgrade.
The settings in the BC Set can be compared with the system data using the Customizing Cross-System Viewer, to check the consistency of the data.
Advantages of using BC Sets:
·         Efficient group rollout.
·         Industry sector systems are easier to create and maintain.
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·         Change Management is quicker and safer.
·         Upgrade is simpler.
Hope this helps.
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Could you please tell me how to create a switch BC set? or Assign a switch to BC set?
(I knew how to create the switch and BC set, but did not know switch BC set)
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BC Sets are provided by SAP for selected industry sectors, and customers can also create their own.
When a BC Set is created, values and combinations of values are copied from the original Customizing tables into the BC Set and can be copied into in the tables, views and view clusters in the customer system. The BC Sets are always transported into the customer system in which Customizing is performed.
The loading of BC Sets is logged by the system, i.e. which BC Set was copied when into the system, and any errors which occurred. This information is significant for Continuous Change and Upgrade.
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·         Customizing can be performed at a business level.
·         Change Management is quicker and safer.
·         Upgrade is simpler.
The BC Set creation and editing procedure is described in the following topics:
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