Re: Public Machine Access

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

I asked our Lab people what they use, this was the response:


Schedule a time to reboot all the machines in a lab, reboot to a fresh rebuild, then deactivate the rebuild process, 
allow auto update to run, then reactivate
the rebuild on reboot process after the patches have been installed.

if you can administer this remotely it's not so bad. i do it with ghost console and the security software i use 
(driveshield) allows me to release and enact
the rebuild process easily.

IHTH

Joel Rosenblatt

--On Monday, January 23, 2006 1:20 PM -0500 "Flagg, Martin D." <flaggmd () hiram edu> wrote:

> We are constantly fighting with out "lab" computers, we currently allow
> them admin privileges then rebuild the machine upon every reboot.
> Dealing with Microsoft patches has been a nightmare.  We also have
> laptops that we lend out and that causes another set of issues.
>
> What tools are you using?
>
> Any inexpensive tools available?
>
>
> Martin D. Flagg
> Network Engineer/Administrator
> Hiram College
> -
> When you want nothing you are seldom lacking.



Joel Rosenblatt, Senior Security Officer & Windows Specialist, CUIT
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
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