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Answering my own post but... Just in case anyone finds this through a search - Google Apps Script worked a treat to programmatically create the bones of a Google Site. Cheers, Peter

Hi, is anyone currently using the Google Sites API? I've got to grips with the Calendar and Groups APIs using PHP with service accounts but the Sites API seems to be in an almost deprecated state. Any pointers to the library requirements (is this Zend gData?) and/or code examples for authenticating and making a simple request would be greatly appreciated Preferably using PHP but anything would be good. Many thanks, Peter

Ah... Mystery solved. Seems we have a OSX caching server on the county network and the iPads are looking to that for their updates. Thanks for your help anyway.

Currently apple.com icloud.com store.apple.com appldnld.apple.com phobos.apple.com captive.apple.com configuration.apple.com time.apple.com swscan.apple.com swquery.apple.com swdownload.apple.com swcdn.apple.com swdist.apple.com itunes.apple.com some from filtering the 'Traffic by Domain' for apple subdomains. Would be nice if *.apple.com would do it

iPads with a Lightspeed Rocket. We've just turned on Rocket authentication against our AD and the iPads are now not running 'Updates' from the AppStore. I've added umpteen blah.apple.com subdomains into the Rocket Domain Exceptions ('Destination domains where authentication is not required to access.') but I obviously haven't found the right one yet. Anyone come across this? Many thanks, Peter

Think I've cracked it, was settings in Directory Utility, Search Policy. Say our domain is 'school.internal'. The default for the Active Directory search policy after binding seems to be '/Active Directory/school/All Domains'. Changing this to '/Active Directory/school/school.internal' worked. Many thanks to furby for the clues - using the Directory Editor enabled me to search for a user against the various possibilities ( '/Active Directory/school/All Domains', '/Active Directory/school', '/Active Directory/school/school.internal'), the one that found the user was correct! After a restart SMB home and home directory are as furbys screenshot, in full finder (yes we will use it) the user home and documents etc all point to the network location. Yay!

Nope, if I cmd+i on the desktop the 'Where' is /Users/Username. Obviously something is not working correctly.

Yep I just posted about this, same problem for us too. Surely it can't be rocket science to enable save to a mounted folder? Seems integration is actually rather poor...

@furby - many thanks for the reply but we don't have "Force local home directory on startup disk" checked in Directory Utility. @AntonioRocco - also many thanks for the reply. My focus is trying to get the macs to be able to save to the users work folders, and although the Mac has mounted their Windows folder (and this appears in the dock) it isn't available in any save dialog, with either the simple or full finder. You say Where is this in Workgroup Manager? Is there a specific plist you are referring to? Otherwise I don't mind doing a bit of scripting / linking if someone could enlighten me as to where the mount is? Many thanks, Peter

Seems to be the time of year for user folder queries! We have our triangle set up (Active and Open Directory), and users configured with Workgroup Manager. With 'Use UNC path from Active Directory to derive network home location' checked in the advanced binding options in Directory Utility we can add a dock item that opens the students home folder (on our Windows servers). (This is the 'AddDockMCXOriginalNetworkHomeFolder' 'MCX Special Folder'). So students can open their work folder but when they are in an application (Cubase for instance) and go to save their work there is no way to access their folder. I should mention that we are using the simple finder, and have hidden network locations etc, Lion on clients, Mountain Lion on the server (not ideal, I know). It seems crazy that the Mac has (obviously) mounted the users Windows folder but doesn't list it as a location in any save dialogs. Anyone got any smart ideas as how to do this? Even a link within their Home would help. Anyone know where the mounted folder would be?

Hi Rob, thanks for the reply - I've started again now (probably for the best anyway) and all is going well! Thanks anyway, Peter

I had Workgroup Manager (on OSX Mountain Lion server) working well with our 10 Mac Minis, linked to our AD domain. Last summer we migrated from RM CC4 (running 2003) to a new domain running server 2008 r2. (yay!) I rejoined the Macs to the new domain and expected to find the old settings (preferences) somewhere in Workgroup Manager but no luck. Two queries: 1) Any idea where Workgroup Manager might be storing the old settings, and how to get to them? Of course they may have been wiped when I joined the Macs to the new domain. 2) If I do have to start again, what is the best way to ensure that any of Workgroup Manager's previous settings are removed? I will probably upgrade to Mavericks and Workgroup Manager 10.9. Many thanks, Peter

Ah, FMS was obviously connected to the default db as I could login using the default password... I've now used the FMS Attach utility to detach the databases FMS and FMS_1, and attach the .bak file mentioned previously. Success! The 'database=' line needed changing in the 'S:\SIMS\Setups\FMS' copy of 'FMSconnect.ini', this must be where the local copy of the 'SIMS FMS Module' looks for it's settings. Now to continue with the upgrade disks, rigorous testing by Finance (Year end etc) then do the migration for real in the holidays. Hope this thread helps anyone else attempting to do this upgrade / migration (SQL2005 > 2008 > 2012).

Have found 'FMSconnect.ini' in SIMS/FMSSQL. Edited the 'database=fms' line to be 'database=fms_1' but this change didn't survive a restart - where is it getting this from, and am I on the right track? Also found information on resetting the sysman password. Does the sysman password go with the database or is it set with the fresh install of FMS?

I'm upgrading and migrating our FMS installation to a new virtual server (Server B below). I have no previous experience with FMS but am doing all this on sandboxed copies of the machines. Server A (source) P2V'd Server 2003 FMS migrated to SQL2008 FMS updated to 6.154 Capita SQL2012 migration utility used to export .bak file (SQL2012 won't install on Server 2013) Server B (destination) Fresh Server 2008 virtual machine FMS installed from the '2013 Summer Installable' FMS updated to 6.154 Capita SQL2012 migration utility used to import the .bak file (db is 'FMS_1') The FMS Attach utility shows databases FMS and FMS_1 on Server B, as does SQL 2012 Management Studio. User can't logon as Sysman though (I have the 'SIMS FMS Module' installed on Server B). I have a feeling that all I need to do is connect FMS to the correct db (FMS_1). Is there a configuration file somewhere that does this? Or any other suggestions? Many thanks, Peter