[Discuss] how to manage a bunch of ms boxes?

[fbxxkl at gmail.com (Kyle Leslie)]

Depending on the Funds you have or time you could set up something similar
to Deep Freeze(www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.asp).  I am sure there are
open source options.  Also in looking into alternatives to this (
http://alternativeto.net/software/deep-freeze/) it appears that SandBoxie is
a similar application.

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:41 PM, <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:

> While I have mostly washed my hands, as of late, of Windows in general,
> the problem is that you are starting with a "non-managed" environment and
> wish to move to a managed environment. That's next to impossible.
>
> One suggestion is to split the disk drive on all the machines, one for
> Linux and one for Windows. Boot to Linux to backup or restore the Windows
> partition. When the user's screw up the Windows environment, just boot to
> Linux and restore the backup.
>
>
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a public computer lab with a little under 40 windows PCs.  The
> > teachers and students are always finding novel ways to break them.
> > They must run Windows.  As the sole IT guy in our org keeping these
> > machines working is eating up too much of my time.
> >
> > Does anybody have any suggestions on how to keep these boxes running?
> >
> > Here's what I'm currently thinking of doing.  Install Ubuntu and
> > virtualbox on all of them.  Upon automatic login a shell script starts
> > that checks for the latest windows image.  If the PC already has the
> > latest image then start virtualbox in full screen mode else download
> > image and then start vb.  This way every user has the same exact
> > 'computer'.  It will make my life and the teachers lives easier.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
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