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We are just starting our budgeting season and I was asked if there is a web based software for it. Teachers and staff can submit their wish lists of equipment, software, books, etc. though a website. Then as an administration team we look at these and approve then add them into the budget. Currently she uses just one big excel sheet which is pretty much coded so only she understands it. Is there any procurement, purchase requisition software that anyone is using they they like? and maybe open source? How do other schools do it?

I have a large group of profile folders that lost permissions or have the incorrect permissions assigned to them. I'm in the process of redoing everything but is there an easier way to give users permissions back to their files then going one by one into each of their folders and applying?

I have a different view on this, I give them full access to the student shared drive and use treesize to view the folder once in awhile. Its 2014 kids do everything on mobiles they rarely use the share drive to mess around with. Kids delete things, move things etc... they are fully warned that its for short term sharing of projects, papers, etc. Its not on a backup cycle. In there I have drop boxes for teachers that students have read/write too. Really the only problem I have is sometimes they place minecraft or prison architect to, but a simple script that runs every 30 mins deletes exe/dmg/app files on the folder and home dir folders fixes it.

fill in the blanks send as the admin user or you can try root in the send Unix command. dsenableroot -u adminusersname -p adminpassword -r rootpassword or send as the admin user dsenable root adminpassword rootpassword rootpassword

you have Group 1 with members and Group 2 with the same members. Remove the members in group 2 then join WorkGroup 1 to WorkGroup 2. This should apply MCX's to each group. I have a students group with just student MCX's and the student group is joined to a group with most of my MCX's for all the users on my network.

We have all Cisco small business switches and was just donated a meraki cloud managed switch. Can I use a SFP from one of our Cisco switches or does the transceiver need to be the same brand as the switch?

Is anyone else having the issue of setting the default image for the background/wallpaper to always and it reverting it to often. I set our students background to our school logo in SL, just moved the MCX from often to always and there was no way to change the background... now with lion when they login they are able to change it. Is there a different com.apple.desktop.plist for lion or is lion smart enough to know there is no always option for it?

I have done this in the past also, The way I did it was take a iMac or other intel based machine, installed server, updates, services. Unplugged it from the network setup IPs, DNS, OD. Then imaged it. When it came down to the night I switched us just made an image of the old server, and took a backup of OD. Restored the "NEW" image from the imac to the server, restored OD and was done. Think that all made sense...

We do in house only, I am a apple certified tech. We only buy the hardware apple care. Apple will send us parts overnight and most of the time we do not even have to return the bad parts. My 2 techs that work for me just use my account to order the replacement parts and we go from there.

do you have the afp/nfs/smb home folder location ticked in sharing?

mind posting a copy of your config to see it, remember to remove your passwords

systemsetup -setnetworktimeserver time.apple.com be sure to send as root

not sure if its the same with 10.3, but the smb options are under the share point tab when you click the shared folder under sharing. There should be a protocol option and select smb.

For a younger student it would be better to setup a local user with a simple finder... This will make a user they click to login and only show a list of apps for them to use. This is what I setup in the k-4 areas of my school.

Since the opening of the school we have been Mac based workstations and servers. I changed us over to AD when apple said they were moving out of the enterprise realm. When I seen 10.7 server in beta I was just shocked what they now call a server. RIP Xserve... After dealing with open directory freezing every other week I'm glad I changed over. Our AD server hasn't been rebooted for anything other then updates. I am looking into resara server though I like where they are heading...