Re: Deep Freeze & Boot Times

["McKay, Steven R" <Steven_McKay () BROWN EDU>]

Another option is to create a thawspace and move the definitions to that
location.

Steve McKay


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Monroe
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:58 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Deep Freeze & Boot Times

We use Deep Freeze too. We do not really see long boot times or login 
times. Our systems get the  AV updates each night during their thaw 
cycles. We thaw them each night and they get MS patches, AV, and 
anything else that we are pushing out that is new. It is all automated, 
they reboot thawed, Stay that way for a hour or two, re-freeze and shut 
down. They power on in the morning by a bios setting. We have about 1200

systems that do this every night.

> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv 
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] *On Behalf Of *Daniel Bennett
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:46 AM
> *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> *Subject:* [SECURITY] Deep Freeze & Boot Times
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>  
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> Does anyone use Deep Freeze on their campus and have horrible boot 
> times?  One of our issues is that Symantec Virus Definitions are 
> updated every time a computer is booted and that takes a lot of time.

> Are there other alternatives that you all are using?
>
>  
>
> *Daniel R. Bennett*
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