Once you have a quick and dirty deployment of Deep Freeze you’ll likely at some point want to make changes to the contents of your drive. You can thaw the partition in DFXControl when you need to make changes: Open DFXControl from /Applications/Faronics Provide the DF User Name as the user name provided earlier Provide the Password as what you provided earlier In Boot Control, change to Boot Thawed and click on the Restart button You can then make changes following the restart and refreeze when you’re ready to do so.
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Deep Freeze, All Quick & Dirty-like
Deep Freeze allows us to lock down a hard drive from allowing change, using 3rd party software and no server. Ideal for lab environments, although there are a number of strategies for using it otherwise. To get started, first download Deep Freeze from www.faronics.com and then extract the Faronics Deep Freeze for Mac .dmg file. To install and freeze the system: Open the DFX_4.51.2200.0365.pkg (or whatever the latest version of Deep Freeze is). Click on Continue at the Welcome to the Deep Freeze Installer Click on Continue at the Important Information screen Click on Continue at the Software License Agreement screen Click on Agree at the EULA statement At the…
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Windows Steady State
The typical school lab: We want to update an image once a quarter or once a year, deploy it and have nothing change between quarters. In Microsoft Windows, there are about as many ways to go about this as there are IT guys. Some will use Altiris or something like that to reimage the machines every night. Others will use policies to lock everyone out of everything and trust that. But what if you don’t have a dedicated IT staff and honestly don’t really have the time to deal with it in a smaller lab environment. Well, introduce Microsoft’s Steady State (it’s actually been around for awhile, getting renamed every…