Chris_Keller

Turn on the option in your printer to not print blank pages. Or at least our HP printers have that feature, works great!

I suggest to create a single special Apple ID for updating using Apple's App store, create it using the no credit card option. That is what I do for all of our Macs, no having to worry about if I am using the correct password or have the right username etc. To create an apple ID without a requirement of a credit card, just use the Apple App store without logging in, then find a free app, download it and create an Apple ID. When it comes to payment you will have an option of none, select it. This is the only way to create an Apple ID without a credit card. Any other way forces you to use a credit card. This way its optional if you choose to give the username and password out for the end user to update without worrying about being charged!

I too struggled for a long time to get this to work, hopefully this helps you out. Here are the settings I have changed in the config.inc.php file and it seems to work, the booker(user) gets an automated email of the booking. Make sure the to setup your "WHO TO EMAIL" section too. I only have selected to email the booker and it works. I will be testing this next school year the other email notifications. I highlighted the settings I changed in red. // WHO TO EMAIL // ------------ // The following settings determine who should be emailed when a booking is made, // edited or deleted (though the latter two events depend on the "When" settings below). // Set to TRUE or FALSE as required // (Note: the email addresses for the room and area administrators are set from the // edit_area_room.php page in MRBS) $mail_settings['admin_on_bookings'] = FALSE; // the addresses defined by $mail_settings['recipients'] below $mail_settings['area_admin_on_bookings'] = FALSE; // the area administrator $mail_settings['room_admin_on_bookings'] = FALSE; // the room administrator $mail_settings['booker'] = [b][color=#ff0000]TRUE[/color][/b]; // the person making the booking $mail_settings['book_admin_on_approval'] = FALSE; // the booking administrator when booking approval is enabled // (which is the MRBS admin, but this setting allows MRBS // to be extended to have separate booking approvers) /******************* * SMTP settings */ // These settings are only used with the "smtp" backend" $smtp_settings['host'] = '[color=#ff0000][b]smtp.gmail.com[/b][/color]'; // SMTP server $smtp_settings['port'] = [color=#ff0000][b]465[/b][/color]; // SMTP port number $smtp_settings['auth'] = [b][color=#ff0000]TRUE[/color][/b]; // Whether to use SMTP authentication $smtp_settings['username'] = '[color=#ff0000][b][email protected][/b][/color]'; // Username (if using authentication) <--- This of course is the email address you want to use to authenticate with $smtp_settings['password'] = '[b][color=#ff0000]password[/color][/b]'; // Password (if using authentication) // EMAIL - MISCELLANEOUS // --------------------- // Set the email address of the From field. Default is '[email protected]' $mail_settings['from'] = '[b][color=#ff0000][email protected][/color][/b]'; <----- This can be a fake email address but gmail users will get a warning that it might be spam

Chrome installs a folder in /Library/Google that had their update software causing most of those messages. Changing permission to deny everyone from the Google folder works but now version 20 complains about the built in flash apps. According to research version 21 will fix this issue as long as the fixes make the final bill, otherwise version 22 will have then for sure. But that is another month or two down the road, school starts in 3 Weeks. So I also have tested chromium but it seems to ignore a special policies file I created & placed in the /Library/Google/ folder. According to Chromium/Chrome documentation it should work the same but does not so I am contacting Chromium developers to find out what's different. Probably going to go with Chromium as it at least runs for students instead of rolling back to an older version because of security risk. Mac is no longer as safe as it once was!

Well I rolled back to version 19 and it fixed the issue. Just a warning that Google must have made some major changes in version 20. I need to find a change-log. So if you use Workgroup Manager to control what apps students or faculty use then version 20 may cause an issue for you and giving permission to the apps within Google Chrome. If anyone manages to dig-up anything on this issue please share.

I am working on getting the latest version of Google Chrome working in our labs before the new school year starts up but am having issues. I have version 20.0.1132.57 installed. I believe its Google's version of Flash that is crashing as the browser just displays "Aw, Snap!". I can launch it without issues when logged in as the local admin, but when I log in as a test student I get the error messages: "You don't have permission to use te application "Chrome Helper." "You don't have permission to use te application "Chrome Helper EH." "You don't have permission to use te application "KSAdmin." I use Work Group Manager to control which apps students have access to and it show for Google Chrome that access is allowed for the apps. I even tried dragging the 3 apps to allow them independently and still no luck. We really depend on Google Chrome as we are a Google School and Google Apps just work better with Google Chrome. Can anyone shed some light on what's going on here. Had not issues last year with older versions. Might have to roll back but that's a security risk! iMacs with 10.6.8 with all applied updates