[OPLINTECH] SteadyState - no Win7

[David Popeck]

With Deep Freeze one can make install files that have built-in
update/maintenance periods that can compliment maintenance times set
up by GPO if you have a Windows server.

Additionally we have the DF Console that allows one to set scripts for
powering on/off computers and to manage booting/rebooting thawed or
frozen with a couple of clicks. Faronics has a new antivirus program
for evaluation that will update itself without staff intervention
(I'll assume it uses the same technology as their Igloo product).

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Don Yarman <yarmando at delawarelibrary.org> wrote:
> For years, the only user control we had on our public PCs was Deep
> Freeze.  Then a new IT Specialist, frustrated and appalled at the lack
> of updates, removed Deep Freeze and tried to just lock everything
> down.  (Sort of the reverse direction that we aged library IT folk
> have moved in over our careers).
>
> That IT person lasted 6 months with us.  We now have no Deep Freeze
> and crippled public computers.  Something needs to change.
>
> What direction do you all recommend I push New IT Specialist?  Does
> Deep Freeze allow some way that regular updates can automatically be
> installed, or is it still the tedious process of visiting every
> machine, booting unlocked, installing updates, and rebooting locked?
>
>         Don Yarman, Deputy Director
>         Delaware County District Library
>         84 E Winter St; Delaware OH 43015
>         740.362.3861 | AIM: yarmando
>         yarmando at delawarelibrary.org
>
> Currently reading "Kraken" by China Miéville, and
> listening to "Packing for Mars" by Mary Roach.
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David Popeck
Lakewood Public Library
Adult and Electronic Services, Supervisor
216-226-8275, ext. 126