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We have tended to go with more specialised shares for staff rather than force a strict hierarchy on one share. I found that if we had one share like "Staff Resources" and then created sub-folders asking staff to keep their documents organised appropriately - we ended up with a mess. In that, of we had a folder labelled "curriculum" and one marked "reports" we would end up with docs related to one in the other. What has worked best is creating a distinct share called "curriculum" and another called "reports" and another called "Teacher Resources" with sub-folders like "Primary", "Secondary", and below those "Daily Planner", "Discipline". We also created a document showing the shared drives and what each is used for. I would use user level quotas on the shares. Breaking the shares up allows more granular quota settings as well. as for whether you show users the whole 7TB depends on whether your backup storage and system allows you to backup that much data and the daily changes, and could restore that much data if needed.

What's your budget? What firewall are you currently using? Typical AD environment?

Yes, as long as you put them in supervised mode, you can always wipe them.

You can use Profile Manager or go with a solution like Meraki, AirWatch, Tarmac, etc. for MDM. These solutions also provide ability to manage and deploy VPP apps. However, if you are only deploying iPAds to class sets/trolleys I would suggest starting with Configurator instead. You can use any Mac for this, used or new. You will want to put them in Supervised mode using Comfigurator. Yes. The lock and charge trolleys are very good. These can sync and charge iPads including updates from Configurator. Smooth wall isn't the greatest with iPads and you will need to test your configuration, and think about whether you use a capture page to require users to login on the iPads for Internet access. No. FOLDR, Acronis Access, or WebDAV. Choose based on budget. Acronis Access is the most full featured and capable and allows creation and editing of Office docs on the iPad as well as syncing folders to the iPad. Probably, but it's hard to know without having knowledge of your setup and knowledge level. Based on your questions I would recommend hiring someone to assist with the planning and deployment. Perhaps get in touch with @Brimstone and he might be able to help you or refer someone in your area. Don't go it alone or you will likely end up frustrated. Like anything, zeal without knowledge is not good. Knowledge and preparation makes everything easier.

Sounds strange to me. Are you accessing the share using the SMB protocol on both the Macs and Windows? If you are accessing it as AFP on the Macs and SMB on Windows then you might need to check that it is still shared over SMB. You might also try propagating permissions on the share as well. On a side note, why are you using a desktop shortcut for this share on the PCs? Why don't you just map it like you would any other share using a GPO or login script? This works just fine.

If you are using the stacking modules and cables, then they will automatically stack as long as you have then connected correctly (1 to 2, 2 to 3, and 1 to 3) and turn them all off and turn them back on in order of 1, 2, 3. Update: one caveat though. If you turned the switches on BEFORE the stacking modules were installed, sticking will be disabled by default and you will have to enable it first http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/kb/docDisplay?javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.prp_ba847bafb2a2d782fcbb0710b053ce01=wsrp-navigationalState%3DdocId%253Demr_na-c03899861-1%257CdocLocale%253D%257CcalledBy%253D&javax.portlet.tpst=ba847bafb2a2d782fcbb0710b053ce01&sp4ts.oid=5171624&ac.admitted=1404812553568.876444892.492883150

How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will | Business | WIRED If you aren't already doing so, you will want to monitor your listing on Google Maps as well as other mapping services and crowd sourced sites frequently visited where possible. Given the severe weaknesses of crowdsourcing (more cons than pros I reckon), it pays to keep your eye on crowd sourced sites like Google Maps, Wikipedia, and such for this type of thing. We have had someone using the name of someone with no association with the school whatsoever at any point in time (student, teacher, or parent) trying to sledge the school on Google Maps. Given the language used, I suspect it is a teacher who was fired by the school with cause (considerable cause) a couple of years ago that was using a false name to try to get revenge on the school. Ex-students with an axe to grind (especially the troublemakers) can and have done the same thing to other schools. Someone with a legitimate gripe willing to use their actual name is one thing and the opinion has to be respected, but sabotage like that has to be crushed swiftly and with extreme prejudice.

If you are going to bring a new phone to market and aren't a hardware manufacturer yourself (as Apple is) then you have to sell the platform to telecom companies and handset manufacturers, not consumers. There aren't enough of us techno-geeks pining for an Ubuntu phone to even show up as a blip on their radar. Consumer demand will only come after there are actual phones in the hands of consumers who might then realise how great a Linux phone is. Then again, they might not. It really depends on the quality in the handsets and how well they are embraced by the providers (partners). And in the end, as long as Ubuntu phone OS sticks to its OSS roots, then us users so inclined can do whatever we want with an Ubuntu phone and even fork the OS and customise it as much as we wanted.

+1 on not using Google DNS (or OpenDNS) if you are downloading from the Apple Store. Pretty much anything hosted/routed through Akamai in fact. If we use either of these for our DNS, it takes a weekend to download a bunch of apps (or media) from the Apple Store. Slashdot

I suspect the user is not waiting for the red dot (indicating connection to AD server) to go away before trying to login. If you are on a .local domain it can take a couple of minutes for the Mac to be "ready" for login when coming out of sleep mode or a reboot. On a non .local Domain this only takes a few seconds. Otherwise, it may be that the user actually ISN'T typing the right login details the first 5 times (spaces in usernames are common cause); or, their network home location may be specified wrong in the AD profile. If it's neither of those things, then you have a truly unique problem I've not seen before. Might be best to open console immediately after a sequence of failed login attempts where the user finally gets on. Search for the username in console and you should see logging associated with the failed attempts and it should indicate the reason.

We don't see any permissions issues and we map the same network home for Mac and PCs (folder redirection for Win7 set to replicate Mac home folder names). What problems do you have?

1. As previously stated just bind them to AD. User Authentication solved. 2. If you want Mac server, you can use Profile Manager (using AD groups) to lockdown and configure Macs. Any Mac can run Server app, so unless you have a lot of Macs you don't need a high spec server. 3. If you don't want to bother with a server, you can install Server app on a desktop, create configuration profiles, export them then install them as part of your standard image to do the lockdown. You could also use WGM in the same way, but WGM is going the way of the dodo. Other suggestions are to consider solutions like Casper Suite or Puppet/Munki. DeployStudio is a no brainer as it's free and easy if you have a spare Mac Mini to act as a server.

90% of the issues I've had with Mavericks were resolved with a clean install. The other 10% have slowly been improving with each patch release. I'd suggest a clean install and possibly deleting the keychain for users experiencing that problem.

True, but a great many of the PC Ultrabooks are that way as well. The MS Surface 2 received a 1 out of 10 for repairability from iFixit, and the Lenovo X1 Carbon has the RAM soldered to the logic board and an SSD that is as difficult to replace as a MBPr. It appears this is the trade off we are going to have for lightweight, thin, powerful laptops with great battery life. Fortunately, both that MBPr and most Ultrabooks come with SSDs and lots of RAM (8-16GB minimum).

There are quite a few options out there to do this. Many companies make solutions that will do the job well, but some can cost quite a bit. Here's a few options that might meet your requirements: SmartDraw - Only semi-automated, but inexpensive and one of the best drawing/mapping tools I've ever used. Automatic Formatting - Features Overview Topomapper (by ManagEngine) - automated L2 network mapping software. Works well, starts at $495. Possibly your most cost effective solution when making the capital vs. labour decision (e.g. Buy the software vs. spend days drawing the maps it creates). Network Diagram Software | Network Mapping Tool - ManageEngine TopoMapper Plus Spot Maps - not a fully automated mapping solution, but it makes creating maps very easy and creates some very nice looking maps that are also functional (live). Mac only though. Spot Maps - Map Your Network

Why are you bothering with fibre for a 50m run? Just run CAT 6a SFTP, which will give you 10GbE speeds. I'd only run fibre for 90m+ runs unless you are using fibre channel SAN or fibre to the desktop and require fibre.

Here you go, this should fit the bill - LocknCharge Europe

Understood. Thanks for clarification.

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p.s. In answer to the OPs original question - yes there are screens available that are better than those found on Macs. But, they are not common, and not produced with the consistency of Macs (or iPads) by any manufacturer. At the moment.

Who's wearing the rose coloured glasses? You must not remember the many, many years of attacks against open source by Microsoft. I was a very early adopter of Linux back in the days when you had to first compile it and I remember well their "cancer" comments and war on everything open source, including their infamous "235 patents" lawsuit. Here's a (very, no microscopically small) sampling: Why Microsoft is wary of open source - CNET News "Microsoft Attacks Open Source" Want to know why? [Archive] - SpeedGuide.net Broadband Community SCO v. IBM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Linux Foundation to Microsoft: stop secretly attacking Linux | Ars Technica Dead and buried: Microsoft's holy war on open-source software - CNET Today, Microsoft tries to pretend they like Open Source, but it's only a ploy. If you can't beat em, join em. All the while looking for for a soft spot to stab them in the back of course. Need proof? Opinion: Antitrust complaint against Android is an attack on open source | Ars Technica Linus Torvalds: I will not change Linux to “deep-throat Microsoft” | Ars Technica Hidden Costs of Open Source How Linus Torvalds Helped Bust a Microsoft Patent | Enterprise | WIRED Now, let's consider Apple. They have actually been more supportive of OSS and generally more respected by a country mile by the OSS community than Microsoft has been. For a good reason. They've contributed far more and attacked far less. Of course, it has been somewhat self serving. Anything that damages Microsoft was good for Apple for a long time and OSS was considered a threat by MS so Apple fed their fear. Besides that, Apple doesn't make money selling software, so OSS was no real threat to them anyway. That's the case for Google, Amazon, Facebook, and others you mentioned - none of them make money off of software, so OSS is no threat. To Microsoft though, software was their bread and butter. https://www.apple.com/opensource/ Symbiotic: What Apple Does for Open Source — RoughlyDrafted Magazine Apple's Relationship to Open Source As for Steve Jobs philanthropy or lack thereof, it appears the criticisms on that front were misplaced as well. Maybe he was following the advice of Matthew 6:2, or at least just disliked making a big show of helping other people out. It's hard to say what anyone's true motives are, so it's wisest not to try to judge that. How Steve Jobs and his wife secretly gave away TEN OF MILLIONS of their own money to charity... even as critics accused him of not doing enough | Mail Online

DeployStudio. Takes a little bit of setup, but big benefits afterwards. For a once off, CCC is probably the way to go.

The shared IP ranges that so many if the UK schools seem to use seems to exacerbate any issues with iPads by 10,000 fold. I would hedge my bets that is causing it.

Wouldn't do it. OH&S hazard. Airborne sawdust + heat =

Unless those Phillips touchscreen TVs have drivers that can be installed on the Mac or a firmware update to make them compatible, I doubt you are going to get calibration to work. We purchased a Commbox touchscreen last year and calibration was way off with Macs until we contacted them and they sent us the correct drivers/firmware. Everything worked fine then.