• These are the things to watch for when creating a new lab image. You should be able to answer each of these yes or okay. Details will vary a little between intro and advanced labs.

Italicized items have been "puppetized".

Checklist for image:

• Tivoli Endpoint Management Client
• Puppet client

  • set puppet service to Automatic (Delayed Start) and under Recovery tab set recovery options to attempt restart twice with 5 minute delay. (The puppet service doesn't start successfully on Windows 10 and the OptiPlex 7020).

• 7-zip (can unpack Office .iso file)

• Office (Word, Excel)
  • run excel as administrator user
  • run excel as student user (maybe not needed?)

  • ensure activated

    • open Command Prompt as Administrator

    • then run cscript "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\ospp.vbs" /act 

  • ensure analysis toolpak enabled in excel as student user

• Acrobat / Edge

  • open PDF from web as a test

• Chromium - Canvas not compatible with Internet Explorer

  • Install uBlock Origin Lite extension from Chrome store

• Java

  • change java settings to "do not check" for updates

  • Run all applets as student user and choose the "do not bother me" options Java Applets

• Matlab (network server https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/106003-how-do-i-install-a-matlab-client-for-a-network-license?s_tid=gn_loc_drop)

• Mathematica

• set browsers' homepage to current semester course reference page

• Windows tasks

  • ensure activated

  • change powersave to never sleep/hibernate, but turn off display after 15 minutes.

  • Turn on 'recieve updates for other Microsoft products'. (updates Office also).
  • remove excess printers (like fax)
  • Excel on desktop and pinned to taskbar
  • Chromium pinned to taskbar
  • Internet Explorer pinned to taskbar (for 109 labs Java applet)
  • 'student' standard user, 'iphysics' administrator, 'teacher' administrator
    • passwords in psafe

    • password setting for 'student' puppetized

  • auto login as student (last login before capturing image is as password-less student user)
  • turn on remote desktop and add student allowed list. Administrators are automatically on the allowed list. Only accounts with passwords are allowed to log in.

  • Tektronix OpenChoice Desktop (623 uses it)

    • Preferences -> VISA -> Search Criteria -> turn on USB, turn off GBIP, LAN

    • Plug in an oscilloscope and make OpenChoice Desktop the default action for Autoplay

  • Associate Windows Photo Viewer with .bmp files. Open an .bmp image file and select the prompt.

Intro labs programs:

• PASCO Capstone

  • PASCO Capstone on desktop and pinned to taskbar
  • turn off update notifications (if possible)

Advanced labs programs:

• QTIPlot
• CASSY Lab
• X-Ray Apparatus
• Canon Remote Capture (for 109)

  • Copy the Digital Camera Solution Disk 29.0 from the instructional lab installers folder. Copy to local drive and run Setup.exe . Install just ZoomBrowser FX. Reboot.

  • Plug in a PowerShot G7 camera. This associates the auto-launch of CameraWindow. (Test and fix until CameraWindow opens when camera is plugged in / turned on.)

• OpticStudio

  • Open license manager and set port to 1055 and server to ansyslm.physics.wisc.edu

• Altera Quartus II Web Edition, Programmer, SignalTap, v13 (for 623)

• SBIG 64-bit driver checker Install the checker, than run an update to install the drivers. (for 307/308/407/507 USB CCD)

• CCDOps Install the SBIG checker, than run an update to install the drivers. (for 307/308/407/507 USB CCD)

• UCS30 driver (bitness of driver matches OS, i.e. 64-bit) (for 307/308)

• GIMP / Inkscape / Winfig (requested by Winokur for marking up images 307/308)

• LabView 2017 instructions

  • We have a license file from NI for Labview 2017 which is locked to a Volume ID. See these instructions for how this was accomplished. In summary:

    • Change VolumeID to match that stored in psafe labview_mass_deploy.

    • Install LabVIEW (puppet does it)

    • update using National Instruments Package Manager

    • visit http://ni.com/activate

    • Enter serial number and Computer ID (psafe labview_mass_deploy) to get Activation Codes
    • Enter activation codes in to National Instruments License Manager. (Do not log in, close that window.)

  • activate license following deployment (see notes in puppet for how to reconfigure for new versions/changed names.)

• NI-DAQmx

• Oceanview (1.6.7) 109, 307/308

  • Run once to allow through firewall.
  • It is nice to show the visible spectrum in the graph. Right-click on the graph, "Graph layer options", "Visible Spectrum" tab, "Show visible spectrum" radio button.
  • The 'lite' version suffices
• 109 computers:

  • PASCO Capstone

• 407 computers:
  • TODO : Origin - as of Spring 2021
  • Install Advanced Image, then install:

    • NI-VISA with .NET options

    • Thermal Noise

    • Ramsauer

    • Oscilloscope Setup

    • Nanosurf Easyscan

• 623 computers:
  • NI Multisim (Student Edition 12.0.1). See technote for serial number, etc.

  • DEO-nano (installed on network drive)

  • install driver for board. Plug the board in, find the device in Device Manager, and install driver by recusively scanning c:\altera.

Final cleanup

• clear browsing history of Student

• delete Downloads of Student

• empty trash of Student

• run Disk Cleanup
• defragment disk

• Cisco AMP (happens after deployment)

• Log in to student

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