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We have been running Impero for over 3 years now using regular Windows computers and because of this thread I contacted my account manager at Impero. They gave me a spot in one of their webinars where I received a Live demo of most of the new functionality in the latest version of Impero. They gave a great and easy to understand demo (If it was recorded, it would be a great demo to show to management as well, if you need to do some more convincing!), after the demo there was a lot of opportunity to ask questions directly and get an answer. After the demo I contact my account manager again and asked for a trial run of the last version. After making sure we are able to handle the new update (has some requirements on the installed versions in your network, but nothing more) we just received the update that should include iPad support. I will be doing a test run with 1 class (we have some licences to spare) for a week of 2 or 3 and see how the teachers (and students!) like the Impero client. This week we will be doing a test install and see how it works. Ill keep this updated a bit.

I think Google tries to put people into two-form authentication rather then changing their passwords often. Still, the option would be a good idea. There is an option to force people to change their password at the next logon. Perhaps that could be used in a script with GAM?

We came from a 1GB limit for all users, so the initial usage was quite low. Even now, no one has yet to hit the 50% usage of Google Drive. We helped and encouraged people to convert documents to the Google Drive formats: If you store them like this, the data storage is free! The 10GB extra was for using the QuickOffice app on an iPad. You only had to sign in once and you got the 10GB extra for a year or so.

That part is actually quite easy. If you share something with a group like in this picture: Note the small subtext that says "Editors will be allowed to add people and change the permissions.". Make sure to change that to your preference! They then get an email like this: Then you can use the big blue button at the top of the window/page that says Add to Drive to add it to your My Drive! Shown in this picture (red circle..): If you send an email, they will get a email with a link included to open the shared folder, afterwards they can either keep using that link to access the folder or add it to their drive to use it. The annoying bit is new users that get added to the group. Even though they have the rights to access the file, they still need to get the link. I suggest gathering those link in one spot. p.s.: Its Dutch

It seems a great solution for classroom sharing, but so far I have not seen it being usefull for teams/departments yet. I did sign up for it the moment it was released and cant wait to use it though! No! not at all. If you share a folder with multiple people, make sure you give them write/read access. If one person shares a folder, everyone else can just place items in it. Take a look at this picture, this is our IT departments internal drive share. Me and my colleague Winston are the two people that update it the most. http://i.imgur.com/6K2aV6pl.png The folder is owned by my colleague Winston, but I can place any files or even folder inside of it. I still own the files, but everyone that sees the folder can also see my own files. Its almost the same as a plain old samba dump folder actually. Just with more auditing and rights management. You can also finetune the rights per document, ie some are just read only for the rest of team, but editable for me and the teamleader.

Try and check to see if they activated a Google+ account. We have several staff members that have the same problem and with all of them, they created a Google+ account with they faculty Gapps mail and added their first name/last name there.

We have been using Google Drive for some time now and have used two solutions: The first one was simply using a "dump account". We have an account called [email protected] which has a rather difficult password. This account is used only by the IT staff. For all the documents and folders that are shared school wide we create a folder in this drive map, share it with the group "Complete staff". Now comes the tricky part: When you share a folder with a group rather that with users, it will NOT show up on their "Shared items" part of Google Drive. When you give a user a direct share link to the folder or document they will be add it to their own drive folder by using the button that says: "Add to my drive" at the top. You can either email this to all users as a link, or save them all in a internal webpage. Rights/share management will still be applied to this folder! Second came naturally, after a couple of months staff got pretty good at handling their drive and they create their own folders that they share. Be carefull though, if the owner of a folder leaves the school be sure to move the files to a other staff member.. If deleted, all shared folders will be gone as well!

You are correct. Bonjour is a broadcast protocol though which makes it very hard to route across VLANS / Subnets. For the codecs they support MPEG4 and H.264 codecs. You can test this by using something like Airserver or AirSquirrel, they require you to install aditional codecs on windows. Aerohive offers their Bonjour Gateway which listens to all subnets and rebroadcasts bonjour requests over different subnets, it works but if you have 80 AppleTV's in the same subnet you end up with 80 AppleTV's on your iPads. Now with the Bluetooth exchange of AirPlay information only the ip adresses are exchange. If your routing is correct they connect in an instant and you only see the AppleTV that is actually nearby your actual location. Works like a charm for classrooms.

Something constructive: iOS 7.1 and AppleTV 6.1 contain a Bluetooth pairing method for AirPlay. With this it is really easy to connect to an AppleTV that is located in a different subnet. Before we had to use a Bonjour Gateway, creating a huge list of all our AppleTV's and Macs in the network on a iPad. With this (with my limited testing so far..) it only shows the AppleTV's that are really nearby and have swapped IP information for AirPlay. Great solution.

Isnt that the exact same script I posted 4 posts up? But as Min has said, you do require a driver which supports this functionality!

I use Impero for that. Although the Login feature does not really work with our Dutch Windows 7 installations (I never bothered to contact Impero on this, as its not an dealbreaker) you can use the MIMIC function for this perfectly. I just send a CTRL-ALT-DEL to all computers, then send a: "USERNAME, TAB, PASSWORD, ENTER" Mimic script and they all login perfectly! [edit] Sorry, you said free... My bad..

You should be able to change it by changing 1 function call: instead of it calling: "actions.job.cancel();" make it call: "actions.job.convertToGrayscale();" try this: /* * Request user for grayscale/color printing * */ function printJobHook(inputs, actions) { /* * This print hook will need access to all job details * so return if full job analysis is not yet complete. * The only job details that are available before analysis * are metadata such as username, printer name, and date. * * See reference documentation for full explanation. */ var CONVERT_MESSAGE = 'Your job contains color pages. Would you like to convert your job to grayscale? Selecting "No" will print the job in color, Selecting "YES" will change the job to greyscale.'; if (!inputs.job.isAnalysisComplete) { // No job details yet so return. return; } if (inputs.job.isColor) { /* Color job, ask the use if they want to print. */ if (inputs.client.isRunning) { // User is running the client software. Ask if they want to convert to grayscale or cancel. var response = actions.client.promptYesNo(CONVERT_MESSAGE); if (response == 'NO') { actions.log.debug('User chose to keep on printing in color'); } else if (response == 'TIMEOUT') { actions.log.debug('Dialog timed out, canceling job.'); actions.job.cancel(); } else { actions.log.debug('User chose to convert their job to grayscale.'); actions.job.convertToGrayscale(); } } else { actions.log.debug('Canceling job due to high number of color pages and user not running client software.'); actions.job.cancel(); } } } Because it´s vacation time now here, i was not able to test it, but it should work. I use something similar but for Duplex printing instead.

First of all, it is important to let us know what version of a QNAP device you are using. Because with the new "faster" atom models you get some different features. We are using two QNAP TS-459 Pro+ Turbo. The first thing is ofcourse you have to join your QNAP device to the Active Directory, in our current firmware I do that at the Access Rights Management -> Domain Security Tab. You join it to the domain to make sure it can retrieve all the domain information and allows you to assign AD groups/Users to the device. Next when you go to the Share Folders option, select a folder you want to share and click on the Folder Permissions button. Now comes the "tricky" part, took me a while to actually find this. Add a new Permisison rule and if you properly connected the device to the AD it should take a while to load. When its done loading at the top left you will have a dropdown list with the default being at Local Users. Change the option to Domain Users/Groups and select the group you want. After this you can define the read/write permissions however you like. One final note though, when the computer password for the QNAP expires after 2/3 months or so it will not automatically renew this password. You have to rejoin the device. The downside to this is that the device will change all the SID codes for all users. So for us a user called: John Snow suddenly became Patrick Stewart. Its kinda weird and according to QNAP responses on their forums nothing can be done about it. So every 2 to 3 months we rejoin the device and reset all permissions on all folders... Some screenshots from my setup:

I use it as well here with over 35 printers in 1 policy. The way i have it i setup is at the User level. I then do a "Itemlevel as Target" (not sure what the english translation is, got a Dutch server setup here). I check to see if the computer the user is logging on too is part of a certain security group. That way i can give a computer multiple printers. An example below:

We have been using Impero v3 for 4 months right now, and I have to say this piece of software is amazing. We are a dutch highschool and have around 350 workstations and 2200+ students. I have tried multiple setups for student control including iTalc but Impero tops them all. We first only used it for regular student control, checking the websites they visit and as a teachers tool. But right now we use it as an simple auditing tool, MSI installation and regular helpdesk usage. For example, if you need to send all users a message that a server is rebooting we can easily do that with Impero. The price is quite fair as well imho. The price quote was around the same as other tools, and Impero was the easiest to install and maintain.