© University of Reading Information Technology Services 20 April 2014 Installing / Setting Up PCs

2 Staff Image Currently – WXP SP2 – IE 6 – OE 6 – Office 2003 Pro – FrontPage 2003 – Acrobat Reader – Aladdin Expander

Staff Image How much is it used? When to move to: – Office 2007? – Vista? summer 2008? Trial of Office 2007 in – now Trial of Vista – next session 3

Setting up PCs DHCP Windows patches Sophos 4

Installing software Obtaining and Buying Software page – vidist – software distribution server Office 2007 – \\vidist\office2007 \\vidist\office2007 need to be more careful about activation codes Acrobat vs. free PDF creators 5

Windows & Office Updates WSUS all PCs on rdg-home should be on WSUS – AGITS – Feb 2007 should all PCs be on rdg-home? 6

Application delivery ITS using SMS for labs wider use? SoftGrid? 7

Vista current ITS position at: – need to have another IT Supps event what else? 8

Remote assistance ITS looking to use this to enable more efficient working SBS have been using for some time issues? 9

Laptop users file security – should we be worried? file synchronisation – good or bad? network security 10

Printers & accounting do you have policies on makes/models? do you want to use printer accounting? in-built wireless 11