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Hello from Suncoast!

I just wanted you to know that last Friday Nick and Javier came
to my Mac lab at Suncoast to install JAMF in the hopes that
it would ease the troubles that my students and I have been
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experiencing. And let me tell, we could not be happier with the
results. I cannot believe the difference that JAMF has made.

We received 25 new iMacs back in October, and while I was
thrilled to get them, my joy quickly faded as I realized just
how slow everything was with them. Honestly, when I started
class at 7:30 in the morning, most days it would take at least
until 7:45 or 7:50 just to login on some of my computers and
open a website. Opening Adobe Premiere Pro was always an
experience, and opening Adobe InDesign....well let’s just say
you’d better never be in a hurry to get anything accomplished
because InDesign would take its own sweet time to open (if it
would at all.) Certain students couldn’t log on to certain
computers, and various software would just refuse to open at
random times.

We also have a Mac Mini that functions as a server for my
yearbook class, but there were mysterious glitches that would
not allow us to save documents directly on the server (we had
to play the old save on the desktop and drag it into the server
trick). The server would always give us an error message that
we couldn’t open a document on the first try, but the second
time was usually the charm.

However, since Nick and Javier worked their magic on Friday,
all of those headaches have disappeared. All students can login
seamlessly. Logins are quick. Websites will actually open. And
there’s no need to take a lunch break while attempting to open
InDesign as it happens much more quickly now. The mysterious
glitches with the Mac Mini server have even disappeared.

I can’t even begin to tell you how productivity has increased
as my students actually have time to complete their work. I
just wanted to thank you so much for making this happen. My
students and I are overjoyed at the possibilities that lie
before us.

I also want to give a shout-out to Nick as he has been so
professional and so helpful and very patient with me as we’ve
worked to resolve these issues. You are lucky to have him on
your team, and I’m lucky to have him as a resource.

--
Stephanie Russo, CJE
Renaissance Yearbook Adviser

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