Re: [CODE4LIB] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles

2015-03-22 Thread Dean W. Armstrong
] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles In our computer labs, we currently use Deep Freeze.[1] It lets us grant our users full administrative rights, without worrying about malware, viruses, and such, because any changes the user makes are wiped out when they log off. A couple of years ago

Re: [CODE4LIB] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles

2015-03-20 Thread Will Martin
We had a similar issue on our lab machines, there was a GPO that we created to fix the issue, I need to look in Group Policy though. I'd be interested to see that if you can take a moment to dig it up. And what is so wrong with Windows 8.1? Part of our speed issues were resolved by reimaging

Re: [CODE4LIB] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles

2015-03-19 Thread Riley Childs
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[CODE4LIB] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles

2015-03-19 Thread Will Martin
In our computer labs, we currently use Deep Freeze.[1] It lets us grant our users full administrative rights, without worrying about malware, viruses, and such, because any changes the user makes are wiped out when they log off. A couple of years ago, the campus as a whole switched to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles

2015-03-19 Thread Dan Alexander
Any chance using a thaw space for that part of the profile? On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Will Martin w...@will-martin.net wrote: In our computer labs, we currently use Deep Freeze.[1] It lets us grant our users full administrative rights, without worrying about malware, viruses, and such,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles

2015-03-19 Thread Dan Alexander
Faronics Data Igloo might actually be what you want... retain vital data across restarts on a Frozen workstation in a Thawed partition. The operating system is still on a Frozen partition and remains fully protected. With Data Igloo user created files, documents, settings, favorites, AV Updates

Re: [CODE4LIB] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles

2015-03-19 Thread Will Martin
Crud, I sent that last without finishing it. We've been chasing our tails in a circle over the issue for the last year and a half. Any suggestions? Will Martin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles

2015-03-19 Thread Will Martin
Building profiles in a thawspace would be a partial solution; it'd allow for shorter login times if people go back to the same computer. It'd be nice if we could pre-generate profiles for everybody, but the numbers don't work. Each profile runs to to about 100 MB each; We have 208 GB free on