djclark

Yea, I don't think our Internet connection can handle 1600 iPads all going out to the Internet to get their files, that's why I was looking for something that could be multi-homed locally and in the cloud. I haven't looked too much into Owncloud, but I will see if it could work in out environment.

We have looked at that, but that then means that when they're at home they will be using our pipe to get to their files.

That would be the beauty of renting them from apple and passing that cost on to the students in their tuition. However, there is only so much we make them pay. I was told that Skydrive is being discontinued by Microsoft? We have Office 365 for Education that will be used for their email.

So here is a little background on our school. We're a private high school of 1600ish kids. This coming school year we are jumping to iPads for ALL of our kids. We have most of the logistics worked out, but the one thing we seem to be goin round and round on is the file storage piece if this very large, and expensive Apple puzzle. In a perfect world: The file storage is cloud based, and local so when the kids are on campus they don't have to go out to the Internet to get their files, but they also have access to them when they are off-site. There needs to be an iPad app so the kids can access their files as this will be their primary homework/class work device. It also has to be able to map drives in windows like a network drive, so when they log into a computer in one of our four computer labs they can get to their files as well. A computer client like Dropbox doesn't work because it syncs the files to the computer and with 1600ish kids that doesn't work.. The icing on this already very tall cake is that it can't be very expensive. We are a private school, and money is always tight. It doesn't have to be free, but it can't be an astronomical expense. So, please feel free to throw out any products/ideas you have. Thanks!

I have a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise (Secondary) domain controller, and the other night it crashed. (Did I mention it is running on an HP DL380 G2 with two RAID5 arrays?) Anyways...it is also one of our (older) file servers and is in the very elongated process of having it's shares moved to our SAN/Newer File Server, but we still have probably half of our teachers and staff (70 or so people) still residing on it. When I came in yesterday morning it had completely lost it's "D" drive which held all of the shares. The array manager didn't report any problems, and I could see the disk in Disk Manager, it just wasn't connected to Windows with a drive letter. So I reconnected it as the "D" drive again and all of the data was there...but all of the file shares were gone. *que worlds smallest violin* In fear the raid controller is dying we have now done a P to V with SCVMM and made it a Virtual Server. Also figuring that since the servers resources were "down" we went ahead and fed Windows whatever miscellaneous updates it wanted and let it reboot a couple of times. Magically afterwards all of the file shares came back, and everything was basically happy again... So the question here is...what the heck happened do you think? O.o

I don't really know the best place to post this on this forum, but here is my dilemma. We do a live webcast of our schools home football games, and I am looking for something free that will give me a live "score bar" I can overlay into the webcast that has a timer that can be started and stopped, as well as score, team names, and other general information of the sort. Something similar to this: ScoreKeepr without the extreme cost would be fantastic. I don't really care about all the features Scorekeepr has, so much as the look of it. I have been unable to find anything else that has the thin score bar look. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. -Daniel

Thank you guys for the fast reponse! Access-Based Enumeration was the solution to my problem, and I am glad to now know about this Windows resource. Thanks.

Alright, so I have looked around on the internet for a while now, and I haven't even found somebody with the same question as me! Basically we are setting up Network Shares for Professional Development for each of the departments at our school, and I need to map drives for them. I have created Security Groups for each department in AD, and a share for each department as well. I know how to map Network Drives for people based on Security Groups through Logon Scripts using VBScript, but the problem is I have people in Multiple Departments, and not enough Drive Letters to give each Department its own letter. So: Is there a way to either assign a drive that has multiple letters, such as "VPAPD:\" or map say, the "P:\" drive to an empty directory, then based on the Security Group they are in, create Folders within that "P" drive for their Departments PD Share? Almost all of the Teachers are using Terminal Services to a Windows Server 2003 box, but will eventually be rolled to RDS on 2008 R2. We have an Active Directory domain, and our current Domain Controller is a Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Box, but will eventually be rolled to Server 2008 R2.