[OPLINTECH] Deepfreeze help/advice

[James George]

We use a product called Smart Shield by Centurion Technologies
http://www.centuriontech.com/  . It can run stand alone or server based. We
have over 200 public workstations so we use the server based version.
Besides locking and unlocking the workstations like DF, it has the ability
to run schedules to start the workstations, shut them down, run plug in
updates, Windows updates or custom scripts. This is the sequence for a
typical Flash player update: We start the workstations 1 location at a time,
unprotect them, reboot to unprotect, update Flash player via script (for all
3 browsers we use), enable protection, reboot. Workstation is ready to use.
We usually can update Flash Player system wide in about an hour and a half
which as you know, seems like it needs to be done every other week. FWIW,
it's a great utility.

 

 

 

 

 

Jim George

Information Services Manager

Clermont County Public Library

2548 US Route 50

Owensville, Ohio 45160

(513) 735-7152

http://clermontlibrary.org

logo with web address

 

From: Bob Neeper [mailto:neeperro at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 1:08 PM
To: Tyson Horton; oplintech at lists.oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Deepfreeze help/advice

 

We have used DF since 2000 on 12 PC's, sometimes more.
When they were Windows 2000 we had the console to just turn them off to do
manual updates.
Adobe, OpenOffice, Java, Windows, Antivirus, etc

The Windows 7 versions did not use their console.
I do (or did) 4 at a time for round robin manual updates.
I don't do Windows updates though.
These PC's wide open for patron use, or abuse.

Windows 8 is a different story.
Chad (Level9 Networks) may expound on that.




R. W. (Bob) Neeper
(Retired Toledo Scale Engineer & Library Computer Guy)
 
Volunteering at:
Community Library
44 Burrer Dr.
Sunbury, Oh 43074
Tel:  (740)-965-3901

On 8/25/2015 10:28 AM, Tyson Horton wrote:

We had Deep-freeze on all of our public computers, but have recently
upgraded to new ones. When I took over as Systems Administrator, my
predecessor had left abruptly, leaving me to figure everything out. My first
job was to get our computer upgrade rolling. I was not familiar with
Deep-freeze coming into the job, so I'm not sure the ins and outs of it and
how to go about setting it up on our new computers. I have been looking
online and am wondering if their cloud based system is the way to go. I'm
also looking for any advise any of you out there might have, especially any
of you techies out there close to us that wouldn't mind maybe visiting Bryan
for some in house help. Any tips or advise would be greatly appreciated. Our
previous set up was he had a management console set up on every computer
locking it down, which was a pain for me to figure out what he had set up,
and then also had Deep-freeze set up on each computer. I tried doing the
same thing on these new computers(setting up a MMC console), but I'm not
real fond of it and it takes forever to set up. I have yet to do anything
with the deep-freeze though and would really like to get that going. I'm
pretty sure the version of Deep-freeze he was running is pretty old, that's
why I was looking at the Cloud based system. 

-- 

Tyson Horton

Systems Administrator

Williams County Public Library

107 East High Street

Bryan, OH 43506

419-636-6734 (voice)

419-630-0408 (fax)

www.mywcpl.org






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