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Post by MartinT on Jan 16, 2015 21:37:38 GMT
So how big are the issues with Macs? They are starting to acquire viruses at a rate of knots and absolutely must have AV installed. We install Sophos for Mac Free if the student doesn't already have software installed. Upon first scan, nearly every machine we've seen has viruses that need cleaning off. This is from a population of about 140 Macs.
I find that MacOS can screw up quite horribly and is not good at detecting when the hard disk is full, at which point it becomes royally shafted. If it goes wrong, it can be damned hard to repair as you can't get optical media any more. So how exactly do you repair an OS that's screwed when the only option is to download the upgrade but it won't? Repair tools are scarce and nothing like as flexible as for Windows. We can replace hard disks and batteries and screens for a few models. Using them on a network is fraught with difficulties and they like to lose aliases and proxy settings at random times. For a product that is twice the price of an equivalent Windows laptop, the hardware is no more reliable and often has to go back to an Apple shop for repair.
Finally, and I appreciate that it's just personal preference, I really don't like the OS and user interface at all. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 17, 2015 10:29:27 GMT
Apple need to learn and fix this or there will be a vast amount of very teed off punters
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Post by MartinT on Jan 17, 2015 11:15:24 GMT
For a balancing opinion, the Apple shops are very good at dealing with broken machines and will often replace rather than repair. That's what the punters are paying for!
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Post by MartinT on Nov 23, 2016 13:03:11 GMT
I started the Cumulative Update 13 package off for our Exchange server this morning, having told staff and students that e-mail would be down from 06:00 to approximately 08:00. Here we are, some 7 hours later, and the upgrade is still trundling along on step 13 of 17.
Did I not feed the hamster enough? Are the planets misaligned? Some other reason?
Everyone is being remarkably understanding!
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Post by MartinT on Nov 23, 2016 14:05:36 GMT
It took 8 hours in total!!
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Post by MartinT on Oct 24, 2017 6:59:24 GMT
Very late to this, but I built a new Exchange Server 2016 virtual machine, configured it, migrated all the mailboxes, added mail signatures and auto-responder, tested while they co-existed and then decommissioned the older 2013 machine (the one I built in the opening post). I started mid-August and finished in the first week of September, which I think is a new record for me. Exchange Server 2016 is very nice indeed. It has some good features including the ability to rapidly search throughout all mailboxes, a real server breaker. This is needed for the stronger Data Protection regulations coming into law next May, where anyone can make a Subject Access Request and bring the company to a halt while we chase down every communication mentioning that person  |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 30, 2017 21:47:15 GMT
I've just completed a third in-line upgrade to Server 2016 from various older ones. I'm getting good at this - it's all in the preparation and cleanup.
Sometimes doing it in-line is a hell of a lot less faff than building from scratch. Especially if it's a complex server running SQL and lots of connectors!
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