I'm coming from an Apple perspective here, so I certainly won't answer the original question, but I'm curious: With Macs that are centrally-managed, we are always told to be very cautious about updating ANYTHING during the school year, particularly OS updates, because it might mess up management if something changes in the app, and the management settings on the server won't work anymore. We update apps only after testing to make sure the management still sticks, and we don't update the OS on the client machines AT ALL during the school year.
A good example is iTunes. We imaged the student laptops with iTunes 7, and set up management so they couldn't share their music over the network, or download anything with an Explicit label. Then, around Xmas time, kids started getting new iPods which required iTunes 8. We had to test carefully before updating client laptops to 8, to make sure the management would still work, especially since we might have some clients with 7 and some with 8 for a time. Are there the same sorts of issues when managing Windows machines with Group Policy? And, just for the info, we use Apple Remote Desktop to push updates out to the clients. --- Timothy A. Limbert Technology Coordinator Newell-Fonda CSD 712-272-3324 --- iChat/AIM: tlimbert65 MSN: limbert65 Twitter: limbert65 Skype: limbert_65 From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Jackie Fonley Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:40 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] Updating Computers I have the building principals collect the teacher laptops in the summer at checkout--and then have those done in a 2 week period or thereabouts so they can have them back to work with. This year I also collected them overnight/over the weekend and ran updates during December. Student computers I do over the summer while cleaning . . . if I get to it during the year it gets done, otherwise it just happens in the summer. On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Mueller, Mitch wrote: How do you guys keep your computers up to date. Teacher computers and student computers. I sent out instructions how to specifically how to up date your computers but our principal does not want them to do it.. Please give me advice on what you do because for me to go around and manually do it myself every time windows releases updates would take all my time. Thanks Mitch Mueller
