Illan Olsen recently bought an iMac and I portended a peppering about problems. Because of this peril, I was propelled into preparing a paper for Mac potentates. Others have proposed I pencil my points, but Illana panicked me into producing.
For this, Illana is the Ethernotes “Hero for the Day” on 31-Oct-09
Getting the Most Out of [...]
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I didn’t even know this Mac Business Unit blog existed before today. As usual, I’m late to the party.
Mac Mojo alerted me to this series of online videos for Office 2k8.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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