[OPLINTECH] SteadyState - no Win7

[Dan Will]

Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] SteadyState - no Win7

 

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).

 

  Yep, been there started with W3.11 & DOS 6.0. Lock those babies down tight
and then find a child to break it (any child would do because they knew more
about the computers than we did).

 

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?  

 

Don, we have been trying to get to the point where our patrons can do
anything they can at home (short of installing programs and messing with the
system files). It actually has made my life easier. I have fewer questions
about "Why can't I {add your own nightmare here}!"  As long as Deep Freeze
is installed and in the frozen state, you should be good to go.

 

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?

 

The Deep Freeze console is the way to go, hands down & no doubt about it!
You can cause the computers to boot at any time you choose & then just have
it boot in an unfrozen state & run windows update (I have a WSUS running
here, cuts down on the outside internet traffic).

 

 

Dan Will

Technology Supervisor

Meigs County District Public Library

 <mailto:willda at oplin.org> willda at oplin.org

740.992.5813

740.992.6140 (fax)

 

"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you
most powerfully: 

the church that belongs to God and the public library that belongs to you.  

The public library is the great equalizer." 

Keith Richards

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