tomdawson

I totally forgot about this thread! How bad is that?! How did you get on, @synaesthesia ?

Hey, that's me! Yup, I performed an upgrade from Zimbra 6.0.4 Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit physical to Zimbra 8.0.6 Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit in February half term. I say upgrade, it was a series of upgrades across a series of different virtual machines. - Zimbra 6.0.4 Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit physical to Zimbra 6.0.4 Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit virtual (p2v) - Zimbra 6.0.4 Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit virtual to Zimbra 7.2.6 Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit virtual (upgrade in-place) - Zimbra 7.2.6 Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit virtual to Zimbra 7.2.6 Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit virtual (data to new vm) then the fun starts with converting to 64-bit Zimbra 7.2.6 Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit virtual to Zimbra 7.2.6 Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit virtual (data to new vm plus 64-bit conversion) Zimbra 7.2.6 Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit virtual to Zimbra 8.0.6 Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit virtual (upgrade in-place) Zimbra 8.0.6 Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit virtual to Zimbra 8.0.6 Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit virtual (data to new vm) Clearly a lot more steps than you might need to perform as you're already at 7.2.x - and I might have been able to do the job with fewer steps - but it meant I had lots of places to roll back to. Upgrading Ubuntu in-place was a nightmare, trying to find appropriate repositories and such, so it was actually a lot easier to complete the task by building a new VM with the appropriate OS, copy the data across. The information in the Zimbra Wiki is really good - especially for the migration from 32bit to 64bit (you didn't say which you're running), so I would spend some time reading that carefully if you need to perform this upgrade. Apart from that, the process is basically to create your VM, install Zimbra with the -s option, to install Zimbra without setting anything up, move /opt/zimbra out of the way then rsync /opt/zimbra from your old VM to /opt/zimbra on your new one, run zmfixperms to set the permissions, re-run the installer, it will pick up that there's already an installation in place, and continue to repair the installation. DM me if you'd like any more hints, but that stuff with the information on the Zimbra forums should help!

It's all about GLPI. Full ticketing system with inventory, knowledgebase/FAQs, item reservation, SLA/warranty reminders etc etc etc GLPI - Gestionnaire libre de parc informatique Top marks, and it's free, which we all love

We are considering tablets for students to use, and regardless of what platform we use, our concern is the charging of such devices and the prevention of damage by over enthusiastic students plugging charging leads in...plus how are you getting on with damaged screens? How are such devices faring in your establishments? …or do you have a pile of broken ones in your office/workshop?! We have some ideas but wonder if you guys could share their experiences of such situations, and any other feedback would be welcomed! Many thanks, Tom

Which aspect of Frog are you hoping to recreate? If it's the education side of things, get Frog or Moodle and do it properly. If you're looking for the "in-context editing" stuff, then might I suggest Concrete5 - concrete5 - Free CMS | Open Source Content Management System - it's a piece of cake to come up with your own themes/templates, and it's a doddle to use...imo

Antonio, I must apologise again for my slow reply! Yes the workstations are configured as the KB article suggests...however when accessing http://swscan.apple.com and all the other listed URLs I just get given a 404 not found error...? So how come each workstation and the server gets a list of updates if you manually run sw update?! I will endeavour to getting around to a speedier reply this time! Cheers

Hi Antonio, Sorry for the delayed reply, again! Haven't been anywhere near the Firewall service. Yes clients can update OK away from using our own update server, and the server even lists a load of updates, they just don't get put into the list of available updates on the Software Update server :-/ Re drive/directory structure being unhappy...is there anything you can suggest? Disk utility's repair permissions thing maybe? Tom.

Sorry to thread-hijack, but seems like a sensible place to put this... Has anyone got any info on PaperCut vs PCounter? Anyone had experience of both? Which one seems best? PaperCut certainly seems to have more features listed on their site, but does anyone have any hands-on experience?

Hi Antonio, Thanks for the reply - sorry for my delay. The mac is on an "unfiltered" proxy, but that's only web traffic; are you aware of software update needing or using any other ports? Thanks, Tom

Hi guys, Having a problem getting Software Update Server going on our Mac Mini server. The service is started, configured to copy all updates from Apple, and to automatically enable copied updates. Configured to provide updates on the standard port 8088. But nothing happens. The only thing I get in the Service log is the following: Fri Jan 14 09:35:21 swupd_syncd[78081] : Unable to download or create .smd file for product zzzz061-9823. Fri Jan 14 09:35:21 swupd_syncd[78081] : Product zzzz061-9823 will not be available for installation. Fri Jan 14 09:40:23 swupd_syncd[78081] : Unable to download or create .smd file for product 061-4612. Fri Jan 14 09:40:23 swupd_syncd[78081] : Product 061-4612 will not be available for installation. Fri Jan 14 10:02:54 swupd_syncd[78081] : Unable to download or create .smd file for product 061-7365. Fri Jan 14 10:02:54 swupd_syncd[78081] : Product 061-7365 will not be available for installation. So nothing's actually getting downloaded. But also when you point a client to the server, it says that the server isn't even there, and I get the following in the Error log: [Fri Jan 14 09:26:57 2011] [error] [client ip.add.re.ss] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/db/swupd/html/index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.sucatalog And finally when accessing the server via a web browser it just times out and I get the following in the Error log: [Fri Jan 14 10:22:03 2011] [error] [client ip.add.re.ss] Attempt to serve directory: /var/db/swupd/html/ Any suggestions at all?! Any pointers most welcome!

We had a very similar situation with our Mac Mini server - turned out to be the permissions of the drive?! Get into single user mode (Cmd + S on startup), mount your boot drive, chmod to 775, restart the device, job done. No data lost, just restarted as normal. Very weird. Might be of use?

Doesn't appear so. I ended up finding as many drivers as I could and installing them onto my 'imaging' machine before sending out the netinstall image. It's a bit clunky as you'll obviously end up with drivers you don't need in the images, but it's the simplest thing to do without buying Apple Remote Desktop!

Agreed - trying to persuade my boss to let me BootCamp them all with XP. The only thing the ACTUALLY need to do on the Mac is iMovie. I think you'll find that you can now get Photoshop and Office for PCs, too!!

So disabling the force local home option is causing your clients to drop off the windows domain? That's nuts... Anything in Console?

Likewise. Thanks for the scripts, I will investigate in a bit. I did look at this online, but how would I do so? WGM is picking up their home folder from AD, so it is mapping the home to smb://server.domain.internal/usernameshare$/ for example - do I have to create a share on server.domain.internal called '.TemporaryItems' or do I have to create a .TemporaryItems folder in every single user's home directory?