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No, checks page is all ticks. No entries in server event logs except the issue that local="en-GB" fixed. JSON output on the page when I re-enter the domain administrator password is simply GetADTreeResult null

Thanks Nick, The Base Settings heading has a red cross, but it does not give the little 'something wrong with your credentials' pop-up when the details are all filled in. Authentication is working correctly for users when they log in and manually entered groups are being applied properly to drive mappings, so it's confusing to say the least. I've added local="en-GB" from a previous issue.

Hi all, We have a current install of Hap v6.5 which is running fine but I've been working on installing 7.9 to upgrade to the nicer interface. Everything seems to be working correctly except for the Active Directory Chooser, which is blank. AD Credentials are correct since the rest of the application works correctly, but I have to enter group names manually which is painful. Any ideas why this may be happening? I get the same results regardless of browser. Cheers

Tried this, login was instant but access denied to all the users' drives

Aha I see! Thanks for your help. Cheers, Pete

Hi Nick, I completely forgot that we had narrowed it down to admins! Terrible testing policy ) How does the update checker work? We might as well leave it in if it's only us techs that are affected. Thanks for the response, Pete

Hi, Very impressed with HAP, recently implemented it here. We've set it up on a Server 2008 R2 web server (no other roles) with IIS 7.5. Everything works as intended but we have noticed that there is a considerable delay after entering login details, to being shown the HAP home screen. The delay is somewhere in the region of 25-30 seconds on average. Do you have any idea why this might be happening? We're using an external subdomain with ssl. Thanks, Pete

Cheers for clearing that up. Much obliged.

Ok so as I understand it at the moment. We only need one Snow Leopard machine, in order to get access to the App store, then we can use DVD media (or netrestore?) to deploy Lion to the rest of the suite. As for the server, which is Leopard Server there's no cheap upgrade path to Snow Leopard first, so might have to deploy Lion image and then buy Server components from the Mac store. (Fine by me, summer holidays job) Thanks for the info, so confusing.

Apparently you can just pay for Lion server in the region of £40. Hoping this is the case or we won't be upgrading any time soon. Importantly the server must be the newest version of all the OSes you want to bind, as it cannot control newer (Leopard server can't have Snow Leopard clients) Obviously it's not such a hot idea to upgrade on release day especially in a school environment, but I would hope that by the tail end of the summer hols there should be enough information available to make a decision on. Don't worry about it being all new, most of us are in the same boat. Once you demystify it all, it turns out it's actually not too difficult to get something that's workable and beneficial. I don't know how the App store itself works, but I'm guessing it's an appleID (aka iTunes account) and that you would probably have to authorise an install using that. Fingers crossed it's not a total nightmare. p.s. I forgot to ask, what model and age are these macs? Leopard is the latest OS available for PowerPC models (eMacs) Cheers, wadtech

I wish we had the spare hardware to play with it. Got loads of fully functional, but retired, eMacs. PowerPC ftw.

At the moment it's not fully clear how Lion licensing is actually going to work. It seems as though it's a download once, install many type deal, but again, not sure until release date. But you need at least one Mac with Snow Leopard on it to download Lion (App store only. booo) If you were looking to use one of them as a server instead of a workstation then it might be worth waiting for Lion as there is no server OS X anymore, just a server install of Lion. The built-in AD plug-in does what you need, so you can authenticate logins and share home directories. Then use the Mac server to set OS X policies. Apple Remote Desktop is now unlimited license from the app store as well, it's a great tool for remote work on the macs, including setting up customised scheduled tasks such as software updates and pushing software to multiple macs without touching each one. I hope this helps, no doubt I've forgotten something.

...which don't work in my cc3 package! this is annoying! That's not to say it doesn't work if you just run it with those flags from within windows, it just doesn't deploy (returns -3)

“board95cleanup.exe /S /v/qn” These are the silent flags from the /? flag on the exe itself.