OIT's Unity Labs Active Directory Windows Environment

Current Novell Status NoApps and MinApps images are available Apps image will be available on August 10 th, we’ll announce on the Wolfprep list Imaging service Zen Imaging for pre GX760 Dell Optiplex WDS for GX760 OIT will create an image to support the upcoming GX780 List of applications is at applications

AD Deployment Timeline OU layout set – July 2 Imaging service Default image – July 2 o Drivers for supported hardware – July 2  GX620  GX745  GX755  GX760 o All supported platforms tested July 10 o Load testing -- July 10 Basic group policies determined -- July 10 Complete testing of basic group policies -- July 17 All group policies determined -- July 24 Complete testing of all group policies – July 31 Begin testing of printing – July 20

Timeline (cont'd) End testing of printing – August 3rd Begin testing application delivery July 17 Complete testing application delivery July 31 All testing completed – August 3rd Migrate those Unity Labs that make up the pilot evaluation – August 10 o Sullivan (29) o Honors Village (13) o FYC (21) Evaluate pilot rollout complete – September 24 Deploy to remaining Unity Labs – October 8 Migrate ClassTech classrooms – December 18

Imaging Solution Using campus Centralized WDS service OIT will be providing a base Windows XP SP3 image on the WDS server with Internet Explorer 8 Office 2007 pre-installed due to GPO deployment issues Workstation Objects will need to be prestaged in the appropriate OU using hostname and MAC address Drivers for the following hardware/VMs: Dell Optiplex GX620, Optiplex 745, Optiplex 755, Optiplex 760, and Sun VirtualBox Use the PXE-all, WDS-Main, or WDS-Centennial DHCP templates

Default Desktop Settings No roaming profile Redirected folders to AFS Home (K:) o My Documents o IE Favorites o Firefox Settings Local profile not saved after logout Cannot save to Desktop All Users Desktop icons for IE, My Documents, My Computer, Firefox and NCSU Webmail

Application Delivery All apps will install post-imaging using Group Policy, except for Office 2007 Using the WolfTech AD software deployment architecture, you decide which apps get installed for your labs

OS patching Microsoft patches provided through campus centralized WSUS servers Target groups set through Group Policy

WolfCopy Accounted Printing Uses the WolfPrint Samba based printing Requires WINS settings, same as Novell environment, included in PXE-all, WDS-main, and WDS-centennial DHCP templates Additional Group Policy security settings needed to override domain defaults

Support Jabber Chat Room

Governance and service groups Active Directory Policy Committee Active Directory Technical Committee WDS Service Group WSUS Service Group

Future plans OS upgrade tentative plan is to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 for Fall User file system change from AFS to CIFS, currently no timeline is available. OIT’s plan is for a unified desktop environment that serves both administrative and academic users. Desktop management solution

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