[OPLINTECH] Steady State and computer management software

[Josh Proffit]

As of right now I'm using it with Pharos SignUp. It's working great so far. I just enabled disk protection and viola! It even gives a little prompt in the lower right hand corner -for patrons to see once they log on- that says something like "Please save your data to removable media. Disk protection is enabled on this system and any changes that are made will be deleted upon reboot" or something to that effect. The only thing I noticed is that you can't use the built in policy editor for roaming domain profiles. A domain group policy supersedes any kind of policy change you try to enforce with SteadyState. So you still have to stick to group policy manager on your server if you're using a domain profile for your public internet. But the freezing feature is working flawlessly. I have it set to restore the cached image on every reboot and I have Pharos set to reboot every time a patron logs off. Hooray! no more "stuck in an infinite boot loop" computers that DeepFreeze seems to do on occasion. Many thanks again to everyone! :)

Head of Automated Services
Joshua Proffit
740-349-5586
jproffit at newarklibrary.info



-----Original Message-----
From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org on behalf of Jim Lack
Sent: Mon 3/3/2008 7:17 PM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Steady State and computer management software
 
This is somewhat tied to this discussion.  Does anyone know if Windows Steady State will work with different brands of Computer & Print Management software, e.g. Pharos, Cassie, ect?  We use Pharos at our library and have talked to their tech support to see if their software runs with Deep Freeze and Clean Slate.  Both do work with Pharos.  Steady State sounds great and you can't beat the price (Free!).  If it works with Pharos, that would be icing on the cake.  Let me know if anyone out there is using Steady State with a computer mgmt product.

 

Jim Lack

Rocky River Public Library

 

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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On Behalf Of Josh Proffit
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 3:03 PM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Group Policy

 

Thank you everyone! It turns out that the Windows Steady State is just what I needed, thanks again everybody for all of your help!

 

Joshua Proffit

Head of Automated Services

Newark Public Library

101 West Main Street

Newark, OH 43055

(740) 349-5586

jproffit at newarklibrary.info

 

 


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