If you need to do any diagnostics or your Mac will not boot up properly you can use recovery mode to investigate the issue. With the Mac shutdown hold down the Command Button and R on the keyboard then press the power button. Release the keys once the Apple logo appears. Recovery mode should then…
To add shared drives (shares) to your OSX desktop you will need to be connected to the network e.g. school or admin network. You will also need to know the following: name of the computer you are connecting to (e.g. SERVER, SCOSERVER, ADMIN1) and the username and password you use to get access to the…
It is possible to connect to the Scomis Hosted Application Service i.e. hosted SIMS using Apple iOS, Chromebook, Android & Mac OS devices from home or in school using the Microsoft Remote Desktop client application. NOTE: SIMS .net requires Microsoft Office Products for reporting, it is therefore the responsibility of all schools to ensure that…
The Apple Operating System, called OS X, is regularly updated incrementally, rather than by a few major releases like Microsoft Windows. The most recent versions are: 10.6.x = Snow Leopard 10.7.x = Lion 10.8.x = Mountain Lion To tell which version you have: 1: Click on the Apple Icon in the top left…
**************************************UPDATE************************************** Microsoft has now released free RDP Clients for OSX and iOS which Scomis now support for connecting to our services, Please see http://faq.scomis.org/kb11320/ for more information on connecting to our Hosted Application Service for SIMS from home and in school. **************************************UPDATE**************************************