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• 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

• 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

• 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

• Flash

• 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.

  • change ntp server to time.nist.gov (often time.windows.com does not work).
  • Turn on Microsoft Update in Windows Update (updates Office also).
  • remove excess printers (like fax)
  • excel on desktop and pinned to taskbar

  • auto login as student https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee872306.aspx

Intro labs programs:

• Excel shortcut pinned to taskbar

• PASCO Capstone

  • PASCO Capstone on desktop and pinned to taskbar

Advanced labs programs:

• QTIPlot
• CASSY Lab

• LabView (2017)

  • activate license following http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/CEF3043068981186862578090074BF31. See psafe for VolumeID, etc.

• X-Ray Apparatus

• Tektronix OpenChoice Desktop

• 307/308 computers:

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

• 109 computers:

  • PASCO Capstone

• 407 computers:
  • Install Advanced Image, then install:

    • NI-VISA with .NET options

    • Thermal Noise

    • Ramsauer

    • Oscilloscope Setup

Final cleanup

• clear browsing history of Student

• delete Downloads of Student

• empty trash of Student

• run Disk Cleanup
• defragment disk

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