Enterprise Deployment Manual

Chapter 4 Deploying iTunes 59
Installing iTunes on Macintosh Computers
Mac computers come with iTunes installed. The latest version of iTunes is available
at www.itunes.com. To push iTunes to Mac clients, you can use Workgroup Manager,
an administrative tool included with Mac OS X Server.
Quickly Activating Devices with iTunes
Before a new iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad can be used, it must be activated by
connecting it to a computer that is running iTunes. Normally, after activating a device,
iTunes offers to sync the device with the computer. To avoid this when you’re setting
up a device for someone else, turn on activation-only mode. This causes iTunes to
automatically eject a device after it’s activated. The device is then ready to configure,
but doesn’t have any media or data.
To turn on activation-only mode on Mac OS X:
1 Make sure iTunes isn’t running, and then open Terminal.
2 In Terminal, enter a command:
 To turn activation-only mode on:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes StoreActivationMode -integer 1
 To turn activation-only mode off:
defaults delete com.apple.iTunes StoreActivationMode
To activate a device, see “Using Activation-only Mode,” below.
To turn on activation-only mode on Windows:
1 Make sure iTunes isn’t running, and then open a Command Prompt window.
2 Enter a command:
 To turn activation-only mode on:
"C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt StoreActivationMode 1
 To turn activation-only mode off:
"C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt StoreActivationMode 0
You can also create a shortcut, or edit the iTunes shortcut you already have, to include
these commands so you can quickly toggle activation-only mode.
To verify that iTunes is in activation-only mode, choose iTunes > About iTunes and look
for the text “Activation-only mode” under the iTunes version and build identifier.