Tuesday, 10 November 2015

MacBook ‘vending machine’ dispenses loaners at London School of Economics

The Apple environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has grown from a handful of unsupported Macs to more than 1,000 managed Apple devices over the last couple of years. Shifting to more automated provisioning of Apple devices has allowed the British university to try new things -- including offering loaner laptops to students through a MacBook “vending machine” in the library.

Yannis Lagogiannis is responsible for the Apple enterprise infrastructure, deployment and support strategy at LSE, which has 9,600 students, 3,300 staff members, 25 academic departments and dozens of research centers. When Lagogiannis started working at the Microsoft Windows-centric school, there was no system in place for keeping track of Apple devices.

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