[itdiscuss] Lab Software

[Barnthson, Patrick]

You might check out SteadyState from Microsoft.  I've used it only in a
test environment, but a friend of mine in the public school system has
had good success with it.  SteadyState gives you the ability to reboot a
machine and have it disregard any changes made since last reboot.  If
you need to change the configuration of the PC, you can log in as an
admin, make the change, and then commit it so the change persists across
reboots.  Software/OS updates to the machine can be controlled with a
little scripting.  It's worth a look.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default
.mspx

 

 

Patrick Barnthson

Systems Administrator

West Side Christian Church

2850 Cider Mill Lane

Springfield, IL  62702

217-793-2800 x3401

 

From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Jay Betancourt
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 10:51 AM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: [itdiscuss] Lab Software

 

Good morning, hope everyone had a restful weekend.  I am currently
having to manually manage a group of public computers that are of all
the same hardware/software.  Lately, we've been having virus/spyware
problems on these machines.

 

I am looking for a product that will disregard any changes made when the
machine is rebooted.  I have been looking at Faronics DeepFreeze
(http://www.faronics.com/en/default.aspx), but are there any other
solutions or recommendations?  I would either want to reboot the
computer and it's good as new or restore from an image (either via the
network or a CD/DVD).

 

Regards,


Jay Betancourt
Network Administrator, First Lubbock
Telephone: (806) 853-7039
Email: jay at firstlubbock.org

Web: http://www.firstlubbock.org <http://www.firstlubbock.org/>  

 

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