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Hello, We're rebuilding one of our music classrooms. Currently we use Parallels to reimage them, then have it push out Pro Logic and it's sample libraries. However, it seems that the new version of PLX wants to store the samples into the library of the person who installed the software, rather than a central common library location. Have we missed an option within Logic to change that behaviour? If not, is there a way around it? Thank you in advance. David Morgan

Hello, A colleague and I are trying to work out how to set our Macs to take each user to our College's homepage. Despite a fair amount of head scratching we can't work out how to do this. At the moment we have Parallels (so we're using a mix of Profiles and scripts pushed to machines via AD groups.) However, we're migrating to Intune / Apple School Manager...we assumed the latter would have some settings for this kind of thing... If somebody can point us in the right direction we'd be most grateful. Thank you.

I've avoided any spoilers but I'm personally betting that given her plot arch and character development we could end up with Queen Sansa. Or the writers pull a Blackadder Goes Forth finale...everybody dies...and some leftfielder takes over...OMG...they could do that exact ending with the Faceless Man....

I loved the movie and thought they did a good job of tying up most of it. It wasn't all just put back the way it was. there were losses, sacrifices that had lasting consequences, etc. I did find the 'We got your back girl' bit with Captain Marvel a bit cringy...just seemed unnecessarily forced. Just have the womenfolk beating crap up like the menfolk. I am curious as to how Falcon is able to be the new Captain America? Steve was given the super-serum, so is superhuman. But isn't Falcon just a regular guy in a suit a la Tony Stark?

The undead dragon did use his breath to knock great chunks out of The Wall last season. I wasn't sure if that was because he breathed magic blue but still hot fire or magically cold fire...still seemed a little strange. But this week, the dragon has obviously levelled up and put all his points into Concussive Blast Breath Weapon Trait. What I find particularly bad is that - as others have said - we've gone from characters moving the plot forward in the earlier seasons to plot-driven characters in the final one. It's a very jarring change. For example, Jon 'I don't want to be king' Snow going around telling folks he's the rightful king* which seems to me to be exactly the opposite of what he should be doing, if that's what he wants. Shut yer trap, Jon. Swear the other two to secrecy and spare a lot of unnecessary death. You know, like Eddard Stark did to protect you, his sister's baby. So many characters this season are just turning their back on all of the hard-won lessons they've learned over the previous seven series. *Although, this is seems like a pre-medieval multiple claims by birth, plus force of arms, etc situation. So I don't think Dany has a clear claim anymore than Jon or Gendry.

Right, I appear to have figured this out. Partly a typo on my side of things. I’d tried enabling the LPD service on both the local and central print servers but alas it did not help. I did a comparison the entries in CUPS for the working and non-working versions of the printer. I noticed that CUPS displayed the printers a little differently but also there were two key differences in Setup. 1. The working setup uses SMB:// instead of LPD:// 2. The queue was missing ‘PS’ at the end of the queue name. D’oh! I’ve amended the script as shown and tested with a couple of different accounts. #!/bin/bash lpadmin -p PS-B-FollowYouMonoPS -L "" -E -v smb://ps-b.mydomain/FollowYouMonoPS -P "/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/RICOH MP C3004ex" exit Jobs are now releasing as they should from the printers when users request them! So that is now working. However, I’m not sure if the PaperCut Client on the macs is working as it should. It displays and updates the users balance, it gives a warning that the job is held in a queue and needs to be authorised. But when I first send a job to print on a particular machine I get prompted to enter my network credentials (although I can add them to my keychain). Is this intended behaviour? I thought it was meant to transparently pass the credentials through. Lastly, as a quality of life thing, is there a way of telling the Macs that ‘Internal Tray 2’ is installed? It’s where our A3 paper sits but I can’t find a way of setting that other than each user manually setting it.

Hello, No - our VLANing is set up so that folks can't see the printers directly. I can add the Virtual Print Queue by hand on each iMac and can print successfully. Thank you.

I had a bunch of older iMacs running ElCap. We had to upgrade to High Sierra to run some particular software in those classrooms. That broke their ability to get network time. Reading into the topic, I believe that Apple disabled the old NTPD service and created Pacemaker (I think in Sierra?). Mojave machines use Timed instead of Pacemaker and have had no issue at all. For the High Sierra machines I fixed it by following a suggestion to set the file controlling NTPD on start up to 'enabled' and putting it back into the startup files. Previously we had issues with networked Macs losing time if they go to sleep.

Hello, We have recently replaced our Xerox printers with shiny new Ricoh ones. Each campus now has it's own pair of virtual printer queues (one for Mono, one for Colour). I'm trying to use SCCM with Parallels to remove the existing printers, install the print driver and then map the print queues. I've set up a Task Sequence that just affects machines based on their OU in AD. Step 1 - removing old printers works. Step 2 - install the newest Ricoh drivers package seems to work okay, too. (If I later remove the dodgy printers and simply re-add them I can print okay.) Step 3 - I'm using this code to install the printers: lpadmin -p PS-B-FollowYouColourPS -L "" -E -v lpd://PS-B.ourdomain/FollowYou -P "/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/RICOH MP C3004ex" (I then run a second line to set the Mono queue.) The printer does appear but if send a job from a MAC it doesn't show up on the printer. I think that's because I'm not installing the virtual printer queue (I've noted that the printers installed by this method lack "Virtual campus" under the printer's location. I've tried pushing a profile to the mac with the printer instead but unfortunately, that isn't working either. Questions: 1. Can I map a virtual print queue with a script like this? 2. If not, how can I do this? Thank you in advance.

Hello. No, we set the profile in AD as \\fileservername\staff\fred.bloggs for example. I know we have issues with Macs and the ADFS shares that our Windows users have, so our mac using students are flagged by course code to have their home drives mapped as above.

I've realised that enabling mobile accounts works correctly if I enable the option as part of the initial 'bind to domain' step when imaging the machine.

Hello, A while back I had issues with AD Domain bound macs - when I ticked the lovely 'Create Mobile Accounts' box it would somehow corrupt their binding - users couldn't log on and I'd have to droped the machine off the domain and then rebind. Then I realised I could set that up as a set in DeployStudio as part of the imaging process. They would bind and mobile accounts would work without issue. Now, however, we've moved over to Parallels and are installing High Sierra and we're getting the same problem. Is there a proper procedure I should be following to get this working? Thank you. Zoatibix

We had an email forwarded to us via JANET. JANET have confirmed that they are getting IP connections between our server's external IP and a botnet server. While I can see pgsql in that folder, I don't see MySQL. Update: Malwarebytes didn't turn up anything. SCEP is still running. Thank you. Zoatibix

Hello, Server version is 5.6.1 OS X is High Sierra 10.13.5 (updated on 13th June) I'd got SCEP installed but I'm installing and running Malwarebytes now. Thank you. Zoatibix

Hello, We've been notified that our mac server may have been compromised by some form of botnet, possibly a .."vulnerable Drupal CMS Version https://thehackernews.com/2018/04/drupal-rce-exploit-code.html" The only web stuff we have running on our MAC server is the basic website to run Profile Manager and Enroll Devices. We do have an alias set on our Firewall as we have been trying to set up DEP and remote locking of our MacBooks. Questions: 1. As I haven't installed Drupal, Apache, etc where and what should I be looking to patch? 2. What would be the best way of cleaning up the server after the patch is applied? Thank you. Zoatibix