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Sounds like it could be a permissions problem on your File Server. We've had quirks in the past network homes on Mac. We redirect a lot of the library locally now but still keep the Keychain on the file server. What is your file server running on?

Hello, we now do a nightly Keychain nuke and also set the users Keychain to delete upon password reset. Our fileserver has a scheduled task to run a script which checks to see if any STAFF are exempt from Keychain nuke (some staff dont require their Keychain deleting nightly), it then deletes ALL STUDENT keychains. Script below (save as a .bat and schedule). The script takes ownership of the Library folder so the Keychain can be deleted (perms are a pain) cheers ---- @echo off set b=Staff :LOOP for /D %%a in (\\PATH-TO-STAFF-HOME-AREA\%b%_Home\*) do ( if exist %%a\Library ( icacls %%a\Library /reset if exist %%a\Library\Keychains if not %%a==\\PATH-TO-STAFF-HOME-AREA\UserNameOfStaffToNotDeleteKeychain if not %%a==\\PATH-TO-STAFF-HOME-AREA\AnotherUserNameOfStaffToNotDeleteKeychain ( icacls %%a\Library\Keychains /setowner "YOURDOMAIN\Domain Admins" /T /C /Q icacls %%a\Library\Keychains /grant "Everyone":F /T /C /Q rd /s /q %%a\Library\Keychains ) ) ) if %b%==Student goto END set b=Student goto LOOP :END

Many thanks everyone, lots to look at there.

Great thank you, i'll have a look at VLC. Just found this old thread on here too http://www.edugeek.net/forums/av-multimedia-related/129001-software-manage-video-multiple-projectors.html with a few suggestions. Thanks for the quick reply.

Hello all, im looking for some software to output different videos to different displays. For example, I may want to save a preset which at the push of a button sends certain videos to specified displays, and then have another preset to send different videos. We have the hardware (quad head graphics card which is outputting to the projectors), just looking for ideas of software to achieve my goal. Hope that makes sense? Running Windows. thanks

Handy link indeed. Shame its such a long winded process to get a pretty basic thing working

Thank you, I shall have a look. Crazy that Apple dont allow easy access to this and people have gone as far as creating Python scripts to achieve what they want.

No list - No apps. Job done

Thanks, i'll have a look.

Those files work hand in hand, but the sidebar doesn't seem to customise using Yosemite (and above) with Profile Manager. In theory you should be able to upload the sidebar plist under the "custom settings" area of Profile Manager, but this has never worked with me. Last time I had it working was on Snow Leopard! Anyone got managed sidebars working?

I would really like control over our sidebar for our network users. The default view doesnt even show their home drive so makes it a pain within certain apps when it comes to saving. Uploading a custom plist to Profile Manager doesnt work and ive tried countless variations of this. Anyone got a solution to customising sidebars?!

I wouldn't allow a school device out without it being managed. I'd get the iPads supervised, and enrolled to MDM to have control over them, and to future proof any growth with iPads at your school. Good point made by Brimstone about activation lock - you need that control which can only be offered by MDM.

Dont use word, just use Text Edit / Notepad - easy to disable. - - - Updated - - - ah sorry, just seen this. Pesky exam board...

Thats one of the things that gets me. We pay for services / support contracts with companies like Impero, and when it becomes much more hassle than its worth to get a product working correctly it just doesn't inspire me with confidence. For example, it took 3 techies days to get the latest Impero set up, only to find lots of bugs with the Mac side of things and in the end we have removed Impero from our Macs - lots of time wasted. Impero is a great product when it works as it should, and the Windows experience is certainly a lot smooth than our OS X side of things but I just don't have time to be a bug tester.

So... what alternatives are there to Impero fellas? I manage our Mac domain here and Impero just aint cutting it unfortunately. It doesn't offer much more than using Apple Remote Desktop and Smoothwall to manage traffic and remote access.

Hmm... so by "home folder" do you mean just the shortcut on the dock? Or do you mean full access to the home folder? Can all users click on "Go" and then "Home" in finder?

Yeah its definitely a quick way of putting something together. IMovie works well on iOS for slightly more detailed editing.

How do you find BYOD out of interest? I've heard it tagged as "Bring Your Own Disaster" by some people I guess a lot of it depends on the type of school and students too.

Ace, Google Photos could work well for you.

Great for 1:1 users, if the iPads are shared this may not work as they would have to sign in / out etc. We use Google Apps for 1:1 devices, and just the web based Google services for shared devices (not great).

I getchya, good to make staff aware of where their photos will go (eg auto upload). The Google Photos App is ace, lets you easily create collages, animations and videos - so if staff take photos of a event, they just tap the images, then create movie and shazam! they gots a promo movie. No need for iMovie, or exporting and faffing...

Thanks Dan, Its good to make everyone on here aware of the new staff and how Impero is growing rapidly. Dont want any digital pitchforks getting waved on here

And wine...

Yeah its a headache, all we can do is advise and inform staff of how stupid it is to do certain things but they don't listen. For the record though... "we told you so" if anything does happen.

Ive seen Supervised iPads "restored" from a cloud backup, thus ditching management profiles. This was way back in iOS 8 though I believe so things may have changed since then.