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Hi All We have just purchased some new iMac's along with a Mac Mini with Server. Everything is up to date and running Mavericks. We have created a master image which we have deployed through Deploy Studio. Everything is working fine except we are having issues getting the Mac's enrolled onto profile manager on the Mac Server. When we enroll an iMac it will show up as 'New Device' in profile manager instead of its actual name. If we leave the client mac's on eventually one by one very very slowly they enroll at silly times such as 1:30am. It only enrolls one at a time and so far we have only managed to get two enrolled. We have got another 25 to enroll but if we leave them to sort them selves they could take days at the rate its going. Has anybody had a similar issue or have any idea's what our problem could be? Sure it's something silly, but we have tried everything we see possible to resolve the issue. Thanks, Jack

Hi Guys, We have around 30 Macs on Site, alongside a Mac Server Mini running OSx 10.75... Obviously this needs upgrading, and I have a couple of concerns.. Will I have to reconfigure the server/user settings once upgraded? Or will it retain all the settings in terms of server side? Which version in terms of hosting the server software is most stable? El Capitan? Or should we hold off and go to Yosemite? Cheers! Rowan

Hi Guys, Our Mac Pro server recently failed because of a security update (No back-up, lesson well and truly learned). Before I had our network set-up with 23 client macs binded to OD and was using Deploy Studio to set them up from a Monolithic image. The users had been set up with local home folders. I rebuilt the server but now its causing issues with the local profiles. I'm still relatively new to Mac Administraion and I want to take the time now to rebuild the network completely. This time I'm going to try using thin imaging and have some questions. Local profiles - Before I had used local profiles because I had read iMovie doesn't play nice with Network folders. Is this still the case? I only have 4tb of network space to accommodate 100ish users. Would it be feasible for me to even set up Network profiles? iMovie/Garageband - When I set up the clients I need to install iM/GB + the loops etc.. Can I download this to the server and send it out to the clients instead of downloading on each machine individually? TimeMachine/Backup - What is the best way to back-up the pupils work? TimeMachine or something like CCCloner? Shared Folders - How do I mount sharepoints to the dock depending on the user group? Anyone got any good guides for Profile Manager? Anti-Virus/Malware - What solutions do you use? Any free ones? Homepage - How do I get Safari to open on login to a specific webpage? Thanks guys, any brief overview on how you do those things would help me immensely. C

Hi all, Around 4 years ago we purchased a Mac solution from a third-party which consisted of 16 iMac clients & a Mac Mini as a Server. These were setup by the third-party and a mac-savvy colleague who no longer works at our school. The Macs were bound to our Windows Server Active Directory so that the students could log in with their normal credentials. This solution has worked perfectly fine for the past 4 years up until recently – our mac server has been showing signs of dying and becoming unreliable. Our colleague who was skilled with Macs left around 2 years ago and it had been the intention of myself and our Network Manager to train ourselves to compensate for this drop in a vital skill-set, though because of time / budget / 1million other things to do, this unfortunately never happened. We currently have a support contract that is unable to help us because the Operating System that is running on the Server is too old (Mountain Lion). With the summer holiday coming up, we have decided to abandon the current Mac Server which was configured by a third-party and completely re-do our Mac Network ourselves. Fortunately, we inherited a decently specced iMac that we can use as a new server. Our goal is to run a Mac solution that we fully understand and are familiar with. Our goals for this project can be encapsulated by these 3 bullet points; Upgrade the inherited iMac to the latest Operating System, install MacOS Server and have this replace our old Mac Server. We would configure all the basics as needed then we will be primarily looking at Open Directory & Profile Manager. Create an image of a Client iMac after it’s had an Operating System upgrade as well as all the software that students require. It will also be bound to our AD Server, same as before, so that students are able to log in with their network credentials. I want to ensure that this client can be fully controlled by the Server Mac. This image will then be deployed to all the client iMacs Have a reliable backup system (most likely Time Machine) Our skills are predominately with Windows systems though we hope that seeing this project through, with the acknowledgement it may be a bumpy journey, will be greatly rewarding. I would be extremely grateful to anyone willing to help in what I would see as a “Help the noob” style thread. I will (and have already started) going through the process of setting up the Mac Server & all the clients over these next couple of weeks (over Summer) and will get stuck from time to time – when this happens I’d love for this thread to be my go-to place should a portion of googling not resolve the issue. I am currently at the stage where I have upgraded the New iMac server to the latest version of Sierra and installed MacOS Server. I have set a static IP address and given it a Host Name and have tried to create a new Open Directory domain, but I am met with the following error when trying to create a Directory Administrator; "This computer's host name is invalid. The host name does not resolve to any configured address of this computer. Please ensure the host name is correct." Google-fu hasn't helped me with this one so far -- does anyone have any ideas for this? Thanks for reading. Kind regards, Nick