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Re: Windows 7 Steady State replacement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Gibson)
Mon Dec 5 13:31:39 2011
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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:31:24 -0500
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We replaced a lot of our physical systems with VMware View virtual
desktops and set them up as non-persistent desktops (now called
"floating" dekstops) meaning the virtual desktop gets deleted and
rebuilt once the user logs out. It takes a lot of work and
infrastructure to get it working though. I just saw in a Microsoft Road
Map webinar that they have something similar to VMware View's
non-persistent virtual desktops, not sure what it costs, what it takes
to setup or how easy it is to manage.
We use a lot of group policies with our virtual desktops (and with our
physical publicly accessible desktops) and that helps to keep the
systems from being a management nightmare, we also do not give our
user's Administrative access on the desktops.
The old way we used to lock down our desktops was by now locking them
down at all and using DeepFreeze to put the machines back to their
initial state after a reboot. With View our machines are part of Active
Directory but with our DeepFreeze machines they were not... but they
might be able to join the domain, not sure.
On 12/5/2011 12:03 PM, Steven Meads wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Searching the archives I wasn't able to yield much (maybe my search
> strings weren't written correctly).
>
> We are in the process of converting all labs and classroom podiums to
> Windows 7. We are looking at options for managing the machines. We
> are curious what other institutions are doing to replace Steady State
> or lock down their Window 7 public computers.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Steven Meads
>
> Student Support Coordinator
>
> Division of Technology Services
>
> University of Wisconsin -- River Falls
>
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Wheaton College
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We replaced a lot of our physical systems with VMware View virtual
desktops and set them up as non-persistent desktops (now called
"floating" dekstops) meaning the virtual desktop gets deleted and
rebuilt once the user logs out. It takes a lot of work and
infrastructure to get it working though. I just saw in a Microsoft
Road Map webinar that they have something similar to VMware View's
non-persistent virtual desktops, not sure what it costs, what it
takes to setup or how easy it is to manage.<br>
<br>
We use a lot of group policies with our virtual desktops (and with
our physical publicly accessible desktops) and that helps to keep
the systems from being a management nightmare, we also do not give
our user's Administrative access on the desktops.<br>
<br>
The old way we used to lock down our desktops was by now locking
them down at all and using DeepFreeze to put the machines back to
their initial state after a reboot. With View our machines are part
of Active Directory but with our DeepFreeze machines they were
not... but they might be able to join the domain, not sure.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 12/5/2011 12:03 PM, Steven Meads wrote:
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yield much (maybe my search strings weren’t written
correctly).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are in the process of converting all
labs and classroom podiums to Windows 7. We are looking at
options for managing the machines. We are curious what other
institutions are doing to replace Steady State or lock down
their Window 7 public computers. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Steven Meads<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Student Support Coordinator<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Division of Technology Services <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Wisconsin – River Falls<o:p></o:p></p>
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