Re: Active Directory in comp labs

[Brandon Payne <payneb () SVCC EDU>]

Todd: Ok, I'll have to look into Mandatory profiles.  Never dealt with those
before.  As it stands now, our current lab machines update in our
maintenance schedule during the night. Thanks...

James: Since each student logs in with their own account, how do they feel
about the profile load times?

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Brandon Payne
Technical Support Specialist
Information Services
Sauk Valley Community College


On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Todd Clementz <clementz.7 () osu edu> wrote:

>  In order to knock down profile times, we elected to use Mandatory
> profiles to help with profile load times.  It caused a bit more work in the
> Summer as far as loading a model,  but it works great.  With regard to
> Deepfreeze, the only downside we had with the program was in relation to
> updates.  Before Altiris, we managed the updates on some of the highend lab
> machines manually and that caused problems with unlocking the deepfreeze
> software, loading the updates, and then turning deepfreeze back on.  I’m
> sure with Altiris and other packages out there, that is eleviated now.
>
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> Todd Clementz
>
> Systems Engineer
>
> Knowlton School of Architecture
>
> The Ohio State University
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> 614.292.8544
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> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] *On Behalf Of *Brandon Payne
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 03, 2010 9:32 AM
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> *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [SECURITY] Active Directory in comp labs
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> Currently, we aren't ready to have every student authenticate yet. This is
> a fairly new project and is in its early stages still. Being that our labs
> currently aren't joined to the domain, for testing purposes in the summer,
> this will ease the move for students until that part is ready.
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> Being that we have DeepFreeze, the biggest thing that concerns me is
> profile loading times. That means everytime a student sits down at a
> computer and logs in, their profile will have to prepare (as if it was the
> first time). So we're talking about 2 minutes or so of waiting time before
> they can actually use the computer.  As it stands, DeepFreeze has been a
> savior for our department b/c I rarely have to worry about
> malware/viruses/system changes/etc.
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> Wondering if that was an issue for you too?
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> --
> Brandon Payne
> Technical Support Specialist
> Information Services
> Sauk Valley Community College
>
>  On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Todd Clementz <clementz.7 () osu edu> wrote:
>
> Brandon,
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> We used DeepFreeze for a year with a few hang-ups, but there were other
> reasons for us going away from it.  I do have a questions about a unified
> username and password.  Are your security people, and maybe you are the
> security people, not concerned about anything being done from a
> computer…i.e. malicious email or hacking attempt or anything like that?
> Here at OSU, the policies and procedures are pretty lengthy with regard to
> user/network security.
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>
>
> Todd Clementz
>
> Systems Engineer
>
> Knowlton School of Architecture
>
> The Ohio State University
>
> 614.292.8544
>
>
>
> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] *On Behalf Of *Brandon Payne
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 03, 2010 8:35 AM
> *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> *Subject:* [SECURITY] Active Directory in comp labs
>
>
>
> Starting this Fall we will be rolling out Active Directory for the first
> time in all of our computer labs.  All computer lab machines will be running
> the Faronics - DeepFreeze product (when computers are rebooted, they are
> back to a fresh state).  To simplify things for now, all students will be
> using one domain profile to login, "Student."  To get around any sort of
> password expiring issues, Faronics said to set the Maximum Password Age to
> 999 or "Not Defined."  Is anyone else running Deepfreeze while joined to the
> domain?  Hoping there aren't any other issues.
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>
> All lab machines are Windows 7.  I already have some computers deployed and
> have had some use the past couple weeks and they work fine so far. The real
> test will be summer semester.
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> Do you know of any caveats or recommended items for running AD in the labs?
> Thanks in advance...
>
>
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> Brandon Payne
> Technical Support Specialist
> Information Services
> Sauk Valley Community College