Ibook to desktop syncing best practices

trying to keep my ibook in sync with my g5 desktop. Client projects in addition to the entourage data files, etc.. I've come across numerous scenarios and recommendations. Anyone with any best practice suggestions, ie: software, syncing scenarios, automation, etc., would be greatly appreciated.

Hello Hugh
The settings that you are looking for are in Itunes. you can choose to sync only unlistened podcasts.
If you go to the podcast section in itunes, there is a filed that says keep and you can choose from the following options:
All episodes
All unplayed episodes
Most Recent episode
Then when you connect your ipod you will then see an optionto only sync the unlistened podcasts and you should be all set.

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  • Best practiceS for setting up Macs on Network

    Greetings.
    We have six Macs on our Windows Server network; three iMacs and three laptops. We have set up all the machines and they are joined to the Active Directory. In the past, we have always created local users on the machines and then "browsed" to the server shares and mounted the them. We've learned things have improved/changed over the years and we're just now realizing we can probably have the machines set up to work better. So, I have a couple of questions for "best practices" when setting up each of the machines.
    1. Since we’re in a network environment, should we not set up “local logins/users” and instead have users login using their AD login? It seems having a local account creates some conflicts with the server since upgrading to lion.
    2. Should we set the computer to not ask for a “list of users” and instead ask for a username and password for logins?
    3. For the user that uses the machine most often, they can still customize their desktop when they use an AD login, correct?
    4. Should we set up Mobile User Accounts? What exactly does this do?
    Any other advice on how we should best be setting up the clients for our environment to make sure we are following best practices would be great!
    Thanks for any help!
    Jay

    Greetings.
    We have six Macs on our Windows Server network; three iMacs and three laptops. We have set up all the machines and they are joined to the Active Directory. In the past, we have always created local users on the machines and then "browsed" to the server shares and mounted the them. We've learned things have improved/changed over the years and we're just now realizing we can probably have the machines set up to work better. So, I have a couple of questions for "best practices" when setting up each of the machines.
    1. Since we’re in a network environment, should we not set up “local logins/users” and instead have users login using their AD login? It seems having a local account creates some conflicts with the server since upgrading to lion.
    2. Should we set the computer to not ask for a “list of users” and instead ask for a username and password for logins?
    3. For the user that uses the machine most often, they can still customize their desktop when they use an AD login, correct?
    4. Should we set up Mobile User Accounts? What exactly does this do?
    Any other advice on how we should best be setting up the clients for our environment to make sure we are following best practices would be great!
    Thanks for any help!
    Jay

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