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Hi everyone I am currently working on a Windows 10 image and had trouble setting the desktop wallpaper through group policy. After disabling the policy that prevents users from changing the desktop image, it now works but is there another way to stop them from changing the desktop? Or am I just doing something silly? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

Hi there I work for a library that is shared with 3 universities. we have our own AD network which our PC's are joined to. All of our networks are linked, so students can come in and log in with their own university UNIVERSITY\USER I have joined a mac to our AD domain and have tried logging in with my accounts for the other uni's but can't. Is there a way to do UNIVERSITY\USER like we can on the pc? Can it be done without joining to other domains? Thanks

I have an online training site that requires Java JRE between 1.6.0.03 and 1.6.0.39. I have looked all over and cannot find a mac osx download for this. Is anyone able to help me with this? I am running OSX 10.9.2 With Safari and Chrome. Thanks

Our users log on to our macs with their AD logins. Is there a way I can make their AD credentials authenticate the proxy on log in? Currently I have the proxy set on the local admin account with my AD login authenticating it, but when students and staff log in, they are asked to enter their AD credentials. Thanks

Is there a way I can manage launchpad for all users on my mac network?

Did you have any joy with this? I forgot to mention before, turning off local home folders means you cannot use imovie as it will not let you save the library on a network location.

In the days of WGM it was easy to edit the PLISTS and setup the sidebar how you wanted, but in the newer OS's and PM you can't do it. If you could tell me how you get around it, that would be amazing. I have tried for ages to sort this out. Thanks

Hi everyone I have my mac network set up with AD and OD. Users log in with their AD logins and their windows home areas and shared area mount on login. Originally we turned off the local home folder option so that their windows area was the main one and they wouldn't end up saving things locally. The problem we had with this was, the library settings folder created itself in their windows areas and a lot of these were corrupting causing students to get lots of keychain messages and sometimes they were unable to access certain things. So to cure this I turned the local folder back on so that this library folder was saved on the mac instead. Now default save location is the local area and despite making guides and telling people how to access the windows area, they still save locally... Does anyone know of a way to make this work with having local areas turned off, or changing the default path to the windows shares instead? I cant even place the windows share in the finder sidebar which would be useful. Thanks in advance

We have a bunch of Surface RT's which currently have local policies set on them restricting certain apps and a script that starts on login, gets the user to authenticate and mounts their AD shares. We would like to set these devices up so that they remote to a virtual machine and can be used like a normal PC. Has anyone done this and if so what is the best way to go about it? Thanks

So maybe I need to do what you said before and manually download the updates and put them on sccm then I can choose when they go out. I know other people use ARD to do it. We did look into getting that as its a cheap download from the app store but someone told us you need licenses for each machine or something? Do any of you use ARD, if so did you just download it on the app store and can use it with as many macs as you want?

We have looked at Munki before but thought it would be good if we could get it working through SCCM. That way, we keep everything together. Norphy, does your way mean manually downloading each update and then doing that? The guide we found allowed you to make sccm run a script that checks the macs update log file and if it finds new updates, it will install them. The macs register back to sccm and package distribution works, but the updates don't and when we paste the script into terminal on the mac, it dosen't like it. So we think the problem is there. Knowing nothing about apple scripts, we are at a loose end at the moment. This is the guide I have been following - System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1: Automatic Updates on a Mac - South Central District Client Team - Site Home - TechNet Blogs and this is the script we have been playing with: if [ -e testfile ] then if grep /usr/sbin/softwareupdate /etc/crontab then echo entry exist waiting for cron to run else echo "30 * * * * root /usr/sbin/softwareupdate -l &> /tmp/softwareupdate.log" >> /etc/crontab fi else echo "SHELL=/bin/sh" > /etc/crontab echo "PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin" >> /etc/crontab echo "30* * * * root /usr/sbin/softwareupdate -l &> /tmp/softwareupdate.log" >> /etc/crontab fi /bin/cat /tmp/softwareupdate.log Thanks

How do others do this for multiple machines on their networks? We use microsoft sccm to distribute packages to our windows machines, and read somewhere you can also use it on macs. We installed the client on a test machine and enrolled it. We were able to put a package into sccm and push that out to our mac. We found this guide telling you how to set up automatic updates but cannot make it work. I don't really know anything about scripting but when we take the script in the guide and put it straight into terminal, it won't work. Has anyone else been successful with this? Thanks

We had this on our macs. Windows somehow kept breaking the permissions on this folder as well so students were always being asked to enter keychain passwords. Deleting the library folder would fix it short term. In the end I changed it so that AD users forced a local area on the macs and this would have their library folders. AD user areas still mounted, so I just had to let them know which one was which so they didn't start saving work locally. Not ideal but the only way round I could find!

I did check that. Previously when I put the proxy on them, I had to add the server as an exception to make it work. Thats all set and internet is working but still no joy

I installed Sibelius V8 network server and couldn't activate my server. Avid have given me a temporary activation for each of my machines until they can fix the problem.