SMILE-TECH/REMCAC combined meeting: 21-May-09

Holy Cow! They weren’t kidding about Harvey. Only way in this morning was from the south.
Start time: 10:10 am
Tech Plans

Most that have been submitted have been approved. There are districts that are awaiting MEGS approval.
Great efforts.

Updates

AVG Purchase

15,900 workstation $2.33/unit.
Ravenna is getting 100 units.
AVG Network Edition
Keycodes: Randy will share with group. On honor system.

MUNIS

Rhonda Henry reports
Phase [...]

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Mac Best Practices: Server Load Balancing planning tips

This ought to be interesting. It is my contention that Ravenna is severely imbalanced. My guess is by 4-5 servers.
Supe’s go out and see all the wonderful things that can be done with a machine and a guy with a computer in front of them. They don’t see the bit guys in the back. When [...]

Mac Best Practices: Advanced MCX – Details

SIDEBAR

Using the local admin, create Sidebar how you want to look.

REGISTRATION

Add Registrations

iTUNES

Double check that Sharing Libraries is turned off for all

MENU EXTRAS

Turn off Time Machine
Time Machine has its own preferences

Train users to read dialogs.

Especially train mobile users to read sync dialogs
Youtube: Monty Python and 300 trailer

By default network home directory are created from the Server [...]

Mac Best Practices: Account planning for management

Note: John D. is dressed in all black like Steve Jobs. No turtleneck though.
Understanding the different user account types.
GUEST

Basic, simple, anonymous dumb login for KIOSKs
Sub teacher needs access for a day
Log out and home directory wiped out
Very handy
Performance wise, works great
Falls apart when you have multiple users

MOBILE ACCOUNTS

Network managed account cached locally
Operational capability as a [...]

Mac Best Practices: Lunch

Lunch was very good. I liked the pretzel rolls.
I sat with Hamilton, OAISD and Holland Christian for awhile. Then I moved over and talked to Ryan, a Ravenna graduate.
Ryan’s with Kenowa Hills and manages the lower grade level buildings mostly. They have about 600 Macs total. He’s good friends with the guys at Kelloggsville. We [...]

Mac Best Practices: Inside Managed Client

Cheese & cracker! I had a whole bunch of notes here? What happened?
I’m going to have to review from John D.’s pdf links.
One thing that was an aside is the discussion on a 3rd party print server: Paper Cut

Mac Best Practices: Defining Macintosh Management

Establishing a consistent user experience. What happens when a user logs in.
Every District Mission statement boils down to:

An environment for students to learn and teachers to teach
and the IT mission statement is to provide support to accomplish the Mission

Policies implement the IT mission

Active Diretory, Open Directory
Set policy from centralized location. Not from individual workstations.
Authenticate/authorization

Workgroup Manager [...]

Mac Best Practices: Systems Management overview

Ignore your phone calls today. Tenshi is his puppy. We will get a link back to the pdf for the slideshow.
The SM Lifecycle Task: Keep track of stuff , deploy stuff (annually in most spots, not RPS), workflow, license management: knowing how many you own and stopping more than that from using, Patch upgrades and [...]

Mac Best Practices: John DeTroye

This is a three day seminar normally. He doesn’t know if six hours will be enough.
Some new podcasts will be posted to the Apple Education site. It will boil this down to two 12 minutes podcasts. Unlike our videos, it was produced by director, soundman, camera man, etc.
OOO. We’re going to talk about deployment strategies [...]