Hi, Bryan, glad you're back!

This could be the right time for starting to extend Deep Freeze into the classrooms, if it's working well in the lab and the teachers (and students for that matter) have gotten used to working with it.  This teacher suggesting it for her room is a good sign! 

The first steps would be some discussion/planning: with Ms. Evans, to check if she is happy with the idea in general or has any view on whether 207 is the right place to start; and then with this teacher, to make sure she's up to speed on how it affects saving student work.  (Also we should talk about whether to freeze her teacher-desk computer.)

When the time comes to implement DF on these computers, here are the tech steps:

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   <li> At each computer to be frozen:
            <ul> 
                    <li> Make sure it's clean, remediated, remove extraneous programs, check student desktop appearance ... 
                    <li> Log in as techco.  Browse to harte-adm01, choose the Deep Freeze button from the righthand rail.
                   <li> Because the console is working well at Harte, use the link for "Seed the computer for Deep Freeze", not the "Install full client program" .  (I don't have this in front of me, just making up the wording.)
                    <li> After the seed installs, log off techco.  Or reboot, if that's what it asks for -- I think the seed program doesn't demand this.

            </ul>
   <li> At Harte, the DF console is installed on the school fileserver, not a desktop computer.  So go to a computer you can use for Remote Desktop Connecton, and run the RDC utility to get to the server, logging in as techco (or another admin for the server -- your INSTR account may work for this).
  <li> The Deep Freeze console ought to have a shortcut icon on the desktop.  you can run it without being asked for an additional password or anything. 
   <li> In the "Custom Groupings" area, make a folder for Room-207. 
  <li> The computers seeded in the classroom ought to show up in the "Complete Network" listing or the INSTR branch.  Select them in the GUI and pull them into the custom folder for the class. 
  <li> With that room's computers selected (or you can do this one or two at a time if it balks at four or five at once), choose "Install" from a context-menu or I think available as an icon in the toolbar.  In the console, as these process (give it time!), you will see the computer's reported status change from Seeded to Frozen.  If you're in the room with the computers, you should see them do a remote-control forced reboot.
 <li> Optionally, to see how it went, log in to one of the newly frozen computers as the designated student user, observe the DF icon, etc.
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(Is this markup going to work?  Hmph!)
