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.
Checklist for image:
- OpenAFS client
- Tivoli Endpoint Management Client
- 7-zip (can unpack Office .iso file)
- Office
- 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
- Acrobat Pro
- Java
- change java settings to "do not check" for updates - will be done by TEM
- Flash
- Matlab
Run all applets as student user Java Applets
datastudio starts & connects to PASCO box
- set browsers' homepage to www.physics.wisc.edu
- 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).
Intro labs programs:
- PASCO Capstone
Advanced labs programs:
- QTIPlot
Tektronix OpenChoice Desktop
- 407 computers:
- Install Advanced Image, then use TEM to also install:
- NI-VISA with .NET options
- Thermal Noise
- Ramsauer
- Oscilloscope Setup
- Install Advanced Image, then use TEM to also install:
Final cleanup
- clear browsing history of Student
- delete Downloads of Student
- empty trash of Student
- run Disk Cleanup
- defragment disk
- Rename computer to 'fzxnext' and shutdown