[Iron Monkey]

http://www.faronics..../deepfreeze.asp

Came across a reference to this in an AutoDESK forum...looks interesting. Anyone used it?

[Wayward]

I have used it on and off for about 3 years here at WSU.

There are 5 labs in my college that run it.

Let me know what you need to know and I can help you out.


Or if you need ahem ahem...........

a







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[Iron Monkey]

Tell me how good it is....I've worked with several school systems, and tried to convince them to use Ghost or something like this...it sounds like this is a better solution than Ghost...or is it? I've seen one post complaining about XP/AV update support.

..and SURE! A "trial" would be useful

[Wayward]

You can customize the clients for AV and XP.

You can set them up to use a WSUS server as well but that is another story.

Honestly what is the point of doing the updates all the time on them?
They are frozen, if they get infected oh well reboot and get rid of it hehe.

It works all right, less time then ghost, easy to configure, then just install the client on each machine you want.
Easy to disable and enable.

Let me know where to get your copy sent to, gmail address or what, it's about 20mb

[bluemeenie]

the Chicago school system used Deep freeze and personally I think it was the most frustraiting hard to configure product i had ever laid my hands on. but thats just my opinion....

[Iron Monkey]

That's why I was asking...I kept hearing Blue's response. Now I'm confuzzled. Brain hertz.

[Wayward]

Well from my experience running 5 labs 3 with different deep freeze configurations.
One of them not on the WSUS server and the other 4 on it.
Us running Norton Corporate and Pusing out updates and definitions, to labs on a weekly basis.
For me I found it rather easy, maybe they were running an older version Blue?
3 was a pain in the ass, 4 was better and I have 5 Professional.

Like I said Monkey just give me somewhere to email it to and I will.
Takes about 2 mins to install and then you just have to configure the client the way you want it.
Defaults 10 seconds, if you want thaw space etc you will need a few minutes.

Let me know, you can at least try it, if you don't like it don't use it.

And not trying to say anything about Blue in anyway, like I said the older versions sucked, or maybe the school districts config was just done poorly don't know.

[bluemeenie]

ohh no offense at all Wayward


TBH I wouldn't doubt that the Schools probably set it up incorrectly.


I just remember it was a pain in the ass to get the Black ICE admin login to come up. it was like a combination of keys a shutdown/bootup and it was easy to miss, and patches or updates screwed everything up.


I only needed to disable it, and am by no means an expert.

[Hammer]

http://www.microsoft...ss/default.mspx

Microsoft "SteadyState" = free deep-freeze tool.

I'm about to try it out.

[Hellwalker]

hellwalker @ gmail.com Mr. Wayward sir.

[Wayward]

Sending now

[Hellwalker]

grooooovy...just in time for my new cpu.

[Hammer]

Having now set up Windows SteadyState, I can say: holy crap, this is EASY to use.

[Wayward]

Clarify Hammer, is Windows Steady State easy or is Deep Freeze easy?
Just making sure which one you meant.

[Hammer]

SteadyState. 4 MB download, comes with a GPO template for those of us running AD.

I'm using it to control my kids' user profile on my home PC right now (no disk-wiping features active!).

One caveat: it slows down your first login upon boot, seriously slows it down, and it disables fast switching.

I can live with those in exchange for the utter impossibility of my six year-old doing damage to the PC.

[ISD221Tech]

Wayward, is there anyway you can give me some direction in using WSUS with Deep Freeze. I run WSUS for teachers machines right now but would like to expand it to student machines. I have tried testing but maybe I don't know enough about WSUS and Deep Freeze to run this king of integration yet. Anyhelp would be appreciated.