I am using several non-apple software packages and am wondering if Lion is compatable.

I am using some software packages that I am concerned are not compatable with Lion. iBank, Office mac 2008, Parallels and a few others. I am a little concerned that spending $29.99 for Lion will cost me a couple hundred in upgrades on the other software packages. Anyone have any idea how I can find out which programs are compatable with Lion?

iBank, Office 2008 and Parallels are all compatible with Lion.

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Heidi-
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Thanks all!
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Unfortunately, that's not possible

Deploy software packages and applications (roles) to rolebased assets

Hi everybody,
I'm new to SCCM and I need some advice about how to deploy software suites (fixed lists of software packages and applications) automatically to our rolebased assets. Rolebased assets are assets that have predefined software suites or 'roles'. Combinations
of several roles on a single machine are possible. We currently use Altiris NS for our software deployments. The system I have there is as follows.
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In case of failure it will automatically retry from the failed step. We can also manually restart the SQI from the start or from the failed step.
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non-blocking failures, et cetera).
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nope, I did not start actual testing of the scenario, and this for several reasons (I'm sure TimDK understands what I'm talking about :-))
- I work at a financial institution where things tend to go very slow (understatement of the year...)
- I have a lab environment but no rights to create AD stuff for example, I have to officialy request these things and that takes time...
- lab environment testing is very high-level (wake-on-lan, 1E nomad testing, et cetera), we'll promote in the near future to our test and development environment where more in-depth testing can be performed
In short, I'm thinking about the concept(s) that can be used, actual testing and playing with it will be for later... I thank everybody for the tips, my goal is to get some thoughts and insights from the experts, one can only learn... I will feedback later
about the what and how and which solution will actually gets implemented.
Regards,
Chris

HT204053 can I use 2 different apple id's and one itunes id for two seperate I-phones?

can I use 2 different apple id's and one itunes id for two seperate I-phones?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Yes.

I have moved to uk from ireland and bought new iphone, set up using my existing Apple ID account and profile but won't let me buy install or update apps??

I have moved to uk from ireland and bought new iphone, set up using my existing Apple ID account and profile but won't let me buy install or update apps??
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Until you get a UK bank account and credit card, buy and redeem UK iTunes gift cards for use in the iTunes and Mac App Stores. But you need to switch your region/country to the UK store in your account information, as you can't use UK iTunes gift cards in the Irish stores, the gift cards are country specific.

TS1717 i have a windows vista and i tried downloading the newest version of itunes and it said it wasnt installed correctly.How can i reinstall it because i went to apple software update and it didnt let me it told me your software is up to date and close

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it said it wasnt installed correctly
What's the precise text of that error message, please? (There's a few different ones I can think of that you might be getting.)

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