Looking for some tried and true Apple xserve setup and student import
guides. We feel like we have a fairly generic setup, yet spend hours on
the phone with Apple over weird issues. We're heading into the summer
here and would like to work out these kinks before going through all the
reimaging process again with Casper. Current example: constant rainbow
balling and slowdowns in the lab. Most commonly suggested fix is a
cache redirect to keep them local...but then you start running into
oddball issues with Microsoft Office, Firefox etc. Long story short..
I'm looking for someone running a network similar to ours with some
major bullet points on how they set theirs up and how they go about
student imports. Here is what we currently have:
4 schools (two elementary, middle and high school) each is independent
for the time being running their own OD and own JSS, etc. The server is
setup fairly generically, student imports were done with Passenger,
basic image was pushed out with Casper consisting of a fairly generic
list of Programs. iLife, iWorks, Office 2008, Adobe CS4 at the high
school. No frills, tried to keep it simple and yet there are just loads
of issues all the time. We are running 10.6.2 on the High School xserve
and 10.5.8 at the other three schools. Working on securing the funding
to go to 10.6 on the remaining xserves over the summer...so advice for
either setup would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe someone even knows these issues are resolved in Snow Leopard.
Hopefully someone out there has their step by step guide on how they
setup their xserve, import student accounts, and how they manage the
roaming profiles aspect. Thanks in advance for any assistance!
Elizabeth Olcikas
Desktop Support Technician
Shorewood School District
Shorewood, WI 53211
eolcikas at icswi.com
