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	<li>Most of this is not new info, and will be familiar to those who have worked with Macs in CPS previously, but may be new to others.)</li>
	<li>CPS schools use more Windows desktop/laptop client computers than Macs, and the ITS department has a longer history and deeper bench of developing management tools for Windows than for Macs. But Macs are not altogether ignored, and especially in the last couple of years more such tools have been deployed.</li>
	<li>To get to the<a title="ADM01 Overview" href="http://cuiptech.wikispaces.com/Distribution+Server+Overview" target="_blank"> school's distribution server (or "ADM01") </a>on a Mac you generally will need to enter a FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) in the browser,  rather than the short form which works on Windows computers (by means of some Microsoft trickery).</li>
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	<li>If the short form for example is <strong>http://Ray-ADM01</strong> the FQDN form would be <strong>http://Ray-ADM01.instr.cps.k12.il.us </strong></li>
	<li>This form of name is a separate matter from how the server will fill in additional path components in the URL. When you connect from a Mac the server may well send you directly to the Mac Tools page. If not, click to go there. If a CPS sign-in is requested, you may need to get the school's techco or tech contact person to sign in.</li>
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	<li>Most of the utility installations or scripts on that page should be be run on a Mac that you are setting up as new in the system.</li>
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	<li>Standard Accounts should be used!</li>
	<li>Deep Freeze is optional of course, depending on whether the school is in general using DF, and on whether these computers are going to need frequent adjustments that would inconveniently require repeated thawing.</li>
	<li>Similarly Insight is optional, depending on the lab or classroom stuation and the school's use of Insight at all.</li>
	<li>Joining INSTR is optional but recommended. (See next note -- it will seem to fail installation.) The INSTR membership is not exactly parallel to how it works with Windows client computers. But the big thing is that it will enable logins to the Mac by domain account names and passwords, i.e. it hooks up to Active Directory for login validation.   Also, when a user does a login with a domain account, the Mac client will probably mount the school's fileserver sharing-root as a volume;<em> but this will not point to the user's home folder on the server, as may be expected with domain logins on Windows clients</em> (if your school is set up that way).</li>
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	<li>Some of them will say they failed to install, but actually planted some seeds which will activate on a later reboot. The tool to join INSTR is in this category. After a reboot, additional steps will run in the background, and may announce progress with notices bannered along the top of the display.</li>
	<li>This note also posted as <a href="http://cuiptech.wikispaces.com/NSP-Tech+Reporting+Messages+TechnicalNotes">http://cuiptech.wikispaces.com/NSP-Tech+Reporting+Messages+TechnicalNotes</a></li>
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