Hi Paul,

 

Any updates to software (Adobe CC, Unity etc..) we tend to leave until half term, just to prevent any disruptions.

 

Updating Adobe CC has been fairly straight forward for us in most cases, I’ve used the Adobe Remote Update Manager: https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/enterprise/package/help/using-remote-update-manager.html I’ve only tried using this on a handful of computers (10). However, I’m not sure if this still works for shared device licenses, which we’re migrating over to in the summer.

 

Haven’t had anyone request to update unity. But there might be some command line arguments,  that might do the trick: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CommandLineArguments.html

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Will Westwood | IT Support Engineer

Bexhill 6^th Form College | Web: https://www.bexhillcollege.ac.uk/

 

 

 

 

We are an FE College which now also has a small HE provision. Our IT team of 7 look after an estate of over 2600 devices so we try to automate as much as we can in regards to software installs, updates and configuration using tools such as Group Policy and System Center Configuration Manager. We do not provide staff or students admin rights on devices to secure the environment and maintain change control.

 

This week I have been asked to attend a meeting to address an HE student complaint requesting admin rights to the lab PCs on their “Indie Games Development” course. Their argument is that as soon as an update to Unity games engine, Adobe CC etc is available they can download it at home as an Indie developer, but then College is lagging behind. We have already had this conversation with the tutor on several occasions stating that we can’t move that fast and that at a minimum we should be working on a particular version of a package during a semester and agree any upgrades to be deployed at half/end of term. He is also requesting admin rights to install newer versions of packages for his students without our IT teams involvement.

 

For those of you who work in HE environments how do you handle this sort of request from Games/Software Development courses? Do you give users admin rights, and what sort of expectations do you set around the frequency of software updates?

 

Regards

 

Paul Cutten IT Services Manager
	Wakefield College IT & Library Services, Harrison Building, Margaret Street, Wakefield, WF1 2DH [log in to unmask] www.wakefield.ac.uk T: 01924 789 212

 

 

 

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