Hi Guys,

 

It sounds promising. I was aware of the frontloading of the work necessary to make it a successful project, though it appears you have managed to get through that stage swimmingly. Running a POC seems like a sensible step for us to take during the next academic year.

 

Steve I’ll contact you off list

 

Cheers

Dave

WCT

 

 

 

Echo similar experiences with deepfreeze. We have used it in pc labs and lecture theatre builds for years with the already stated benefits.

 

One issue that we have had was trying to get it to work with Kaspersky Antivirus. This was in regard to a thawed space on the PC to allow an AV update on each boot. A lot of work went into this and at the time we did not resolve this. That was with previous versions of Kaspersky and deepfreeze.

 

Cheers

John

 

 

Here at Marjon we have used DeepFreeze for years and it has been a superb investment on both Windows and Apple units. Keeps machines clean and tight plus all our users know that all data is wiped clean after a restart so they cannot leave any sensitive data behind provided they restart. We have not quantified savings either but have now started freezing staff machines because we are convinced it will save us hours of sorting out machine issues where users install/delete/rename/fiddle etc… with things.

 

You do need to invest some time to set up some WOL groups and send out maintenance plans then machines will wake on lan, run scripts (but this is not very sophisticated), windows updates, go to WSUS etc… and refreeze during a maintenance period.

 

Down side is that if a user loses power or restarts and they have not saved a file, it is gone so we have a default background saying this. Make sure you unfreeze prior to installing anything or it will be wiped clean ;-))

 

Personally I think that this software has been a great investment.

 

 

 

We (Imperial College London) use it on most of our teaching machines (c. 4,000 machines) and it works well. The massive benefit is that students can’t accidentally or deliberately mess things up; we’ve never tried to quantify the support desk savings but I suspect that they’re massive and certainly outweigh the cost of the software.

 

Happy to have a visit if that helps.

 

Steve

 

 

Morning all,

 

Is anyone using Faronics’ Deep Freeze and would be willing to have a visit to talk about the pro’s/cons of the product and how it’s changed (if indeed it has…) your support desk function?

 

Regards

Dave Kings

Worcester College of Technology

 

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