apeman

what does lpstat -l show from terminal?

If you can't return the software and are forced to run it then this is the method you should use

Why have it sitting there doing nothing?? have it online and part of the network then make a redundant core with the pair.

Don't use the login hook, apple deprecated login hooks again ago You should use the launch agent PaperCut KB | Starting the Client on Mac OS with Launchd

If you go down the Windows route i wouldn't use Apache, i would use IIS on server 2012 or 2012 R2. You can probably have it up and running with about 5 lines of powershell. Never seen or heard of an issue running it under IIS, i use linux and apache myself but only because we run munki web admin on the same box and some frameworks weren't available for IIS.

Munki admin is a separate tool which is not written by the Munki developers thats why you can't find it when you download the munki package. I use the Munki Admin to manage my repo, it is a great tool. Be careful googling Munki Server as again this is another piece of software which isn't part of a standard install. All you need for Munki is a Webserver with 5 folders Pkgs, Pkgsinfo, catalogs, icons, manifests. I would aim to get this working first so you can browse from your client machine to munki.domainname.com/repo/pkgs etc once you can do this then start adding your software.

Munki 2 has been out since september 2014 Munki 2.2 came out last week which adds native profiles support. I wouldn't even bother trying to set it up on OSX Server, Apple has shown very little interest in there server side of things since they dropped the xserve. I would use Linux or even Windows as its only a web server your setting up.

This sounds a bit like an issue we had with aerohive and was fixed in the latest firmware that came out 3 weeks ago, are you running the latest?? @nikaso just for info Aerohive and Meraki hardware was identical in the older models but neither company will admit it.

My guess would be the flash plugin is causing the issue.

There is no Sysprep process but if you are using Deploystudio it does clean up a number of things like byhost preferences and local KDC for you. Remember Deploystudio is reverse engineering Apples OS so this is why it takes time for them to support the new releases. The current recommend way to deploy OS X is use an unbooted image using something like netinstall / AutoDMG or even use the OS thats on the Mac out of the box and use a software deployment tool to add the necessary software.

I am sorry but we have a lot of Little Dreams stuff and its a load of very expensive junk, most of it does look nice but isn't designed for heavy use by students and falls to bits very quickly.

We use this free tool Photos for Outlook, SharePoint and Lync it works very well but it only updates the jpeg or the thumbnail attributes at one time not both like the powershell will. You will only need the jpeg attribute if you are using something like apple mail.

i found 14 lots on the ground floor

The exchange management console uses iis even though its an mmc so i would say thats still where your problem lies, be careful running the repair commands they can actually make things worse.

Using too many GP's and WMI Filters can cause a massive performance impact, it is also a management overhead having lots of GP's to keep track of. Depending on how you name your computers could you maybe add some logic to your script?? i.e. If computer name contains room1 then map this printer else if computer name contains room2 then map this other printer etc This has the advantage of being one script applied at logon and in only one gp with no wmi so easier to manage.