Below is an update on the labs from Troy, Matt, Art, and Josh:
Things are busy for the labs this summer. We are giving all the machines a thorough going through and repairing all the problems. The biggest change you will see this fall is the deployment of DeepFreeze by Faronics. With this software we are going to be able to solve a lot of the problems we were having in the labs. Students will now have Administrative Privileges to the machines to try out new things. When the machines reboot they will go back to a known state. Anything on the local hard drive will be wiped out if its not part of the image. ALWAYS PUT YOUR DATA ON Z DRIVE.
The other change is that roaming profiles will also go away. This is due to all the problems we had with them last year. Hope you all are having a great summer and see you in the fall.
My high school used Deep Freeze, it works really well, but just a few words of advice: Use Deep Freeze version 6 or later otherwise prepare for lots of unfrozen computers via Deep Unfreezer (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=deep+unfreezer)
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I've used Deep Freeze in some of the labs at Brewster. It work well. The issue was in the administration side (complicated by cross OS issues) and in the Lab where LARGE files (video) need to be push off the HD before a reboot. Faronics treated us well and was good about tech support. They use to have a product called cleansweep, which deleted all temp items and such; CleanSweep is not longer on their download list though.
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