Horrible and a great waste of time
What took Apple Configurator 1.x a few hours to complete now takes a full week with 2.x. Most often the process of updating apps, or installing apps just stops. The activity window stops showing anything, but the app is still busy. I often have to force quit, unplug the cart, and start over about once every hour. Installing apps from a blueprint seems to work if the blueprint has 3-8 apps. More than that and it will fail with a cryptic error message (NSPOSIXErrorDomain -1 or NSURLErrorDomain -1) that fails to tell you what app or device caused the problem which means starting all over again. I have a blueprint with 109 apps in it for a shared cart. It installed 10-15 of those apps (different numbers on different devices) and placeholders for everything else. Once the placeholder is there, you can only get the app to install if you install it manually as rerunning the blueprint just fails constantly. I was under the impression that when you installed apps it downloads the latest version, but it appears to download older versions, as once I had the 109 apps installed, 38 of them needed updates, which too failed trying to run all at once. I had to manually run update and pick 4-5 apps at a time. Rebooting the Configurator machine here at there once the activity window grids to a stop. And oh yeah, once those apps are install, none of them will run till to touch each device and enter in the Apple ID that purchased it. Doesn’t matter that you entered it about a dozen times while installing. Documentation is so poor and lacking that it may as well not even exist. Also, unable to import anything from Configurator 1.x, as that process also fails every time with no indication as to why. I assumed if it worked it would have brought over the supervision identity so AC2 could manage devices that AC1 supervised. Nope. I have to start all the carts over from scratch with AC2. Now I am thinking of going back to AC1. The only this this version succeeds at is giving it’s users headaches and wasting their time.
Mike458478 about Apple Configurator
