Install and Config Lab Software
Base Software and Configuration for Computer Labs
- The same software and configuration as faculty/staff computers
Specific software packages: LabStats, bios-tweak, keyserver client
- Disable: Apple Update, Adobe Update, Java Update, Firefox Update, real player update, videolan update, flash update, shockwave update. Also disable prompts to save password.
- artstor, microsoft allow popups
- If lectern : have just 4am restart.
- disable simple file sharing, show all extensions, show hidden and super hidden files, disable automatic searching for network/printers
domain admins (other admins) - Labstats
- Disable ability to lock the screen
- Disable hibernation
- Change power settings if lectern (monitor off after 1 hr, screen saver 1 hr, when I press the power button "ask") (think about appropriate power settings - sleep time, etc)
- Desktop background warning "No Data Saved" etc.
- windows policy: do not display last user
- display computer name via BGInfo on monitor screen (in progress)
- environmental variable "lab computer"
Middlebury_Lab_Computer
set toYes
- disable the login message "setting up personalized settings" by deleting HKLM\\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components
- set computer to autopower on every day at 3:30am or so.
- set appropriate volume level
- disable chassis intrusion, set BIOS password, hard disk setting = performance
- disable IE run once
- Give admin permissions to appropriate groups
- auto-logoff after X mins of inactivity
- auto-reboot machines after x mins of inactivity
- shutdown machines on a schedule
- sleep machines on a schedule
- enable or disable windows firewall
MBH555 - Chemistry Lab
- Spartan 08 Campus license
- This page was last edited on 24 September 2014, at 14:43.
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