Holy cow!   That Hail Mary is such a kluge!  But it works so I'm putting it into our process notes.   WTF Apple (that's coming from myself - a longtime Apple fan boi)   That may work - I'm calling this.   Thanks     ... View more

Single SSID set in management - PSK ... View more

This is for the latest IOS ver 11 I believe. ... View more

Great find with that Quora post.   Yes, I see the point pairing WiFi passwords to the IOS keychain however if I were designing this system I would have used elliptic curve cryptography to create a subset of the keychain for decryption of MDM networks or WiFi in general.   The MDM cert be able to decrypt just those items (along the user key) so that if the management network is present (or any setting defined by the MDM agent meaning all WiFi passwords as well) then the device could communicate on power up.       ... View more

Yes indeed, the option we have been doing right now and hoping someone has figured on a work-around.   Thanks for sharing your experience - I'm surprised large Corporate IT haven't pressured Apple to change this feature or allow for network communications to be turned on under certain circumstances.   We were just discussing if now we need to set and keep record of the pass-code in these situations. Having to wipe devices due to user error when there is loss of data is a ridiculous design "feature".   Harrumph.     ... View more

UGH!   Thanks but I was hoping that wasn't the case.    May I ask what your process is to unlock these units? ... View more