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How far along am I? I haven't started. When I showed up, 4 nice
young men were dutifully building them one by one with a Windows
install disk, a copy of Kaspersky antivirus, and no internet to do
the initial update of the virus definitions, and a deadline. They
made their deadline, the computers went out to the users. <br>
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There are two groups of users; absolute neophytes some of whom I
have taught such exotic techniques as cntl+ c, cntl + v, to give you
an idea of what level I'm talking about. Touch typing is an arcane
art unknown here. The other group were more experienced, they still
can't touch type, but they know how to get on the internet and
download browser hijackers, useless background processes (many), and
naturally, viruses. It has not occurred to either group to update
their virus definitions. Though some notice that Kaspersky is
sending them a message before they click it closed.<br>
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I have now gotten the OK from my manager to clean everything up.
These netbooks are threatening a project that has nothing to do with
computers, it is a project to teach English. <br>
Someone commented on the 900 number. Also part of the project was
charging 14,000 cell phones and installing 14,000 SD cards on which
we had loaded 14,000 copies of a set of English lessons. That was
fun. <br>
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The phones were then sent to 14,000 teachers along with speakers so
that the teachers have audio lessons. fyi, a primary school teacher
has at least a 12th grade education. And, the education system went
from French to English in 2010 with a full 3 months to prepare. So
any teacher has had most, if not all of their education in French.<br>
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Thank you for the advice. I am going to research the various
different advice. About the Clonezilla. I have heard of it as a
Linux based program. Can I use it since the netbooks and the server
are all windows?<br>
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Thanks again for the help, <br>
Claudia<br>
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That's a lot of work. What i would do is put the cloned
image on a windows server on say, digital ocean and use
windows deployment server and install the cloned image you
want to use to the systems on boot. Will still require
all systems to be booted with a key sequence. Would
probably be much quicker then to install from a USB drive.
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900 Netbooks. Lots of work.<br>
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How far along are you ? <br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi All, <br>
I have 900 netbooks to set up with Windows 8.
Well actually, they already have Windows 8
installed. I have 900 netbooks to make usable
since they are Windows 8 and are being given to
people, most of whom have never touched a computer
before. <br>
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I have a vague memory that a company desktop
technician did some manner of cloning so that all
company laptops were identical. I also had the
feeling that this is what the techs at bigbox
computer stores do when setting up a newly
purchased computer with all the official bloat
ware.<br>
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I would like to format these 900 machines and
perform this manner of cloning setup. Is this
something that someone at NB has done and can give
me some tips on?<br>
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TYIA, <br>
Claudia </div>
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<p class="" avgcert""="" color="#000000" align="left">No virus
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Checked by AVG - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Version: 2014.0.4355 / Virus Database: 3882/7371 - Release Date:
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