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- Q&A: Imaging and viruses
Q. Can a virus survive a reimage?
A. A virus could only survive reimaging if it had infected the boot sector and the reimaging process did not overwrite the boot sector with a clean one.
Q. Can a computer infect the image server during reimage?
A. The computer, while being reimaged, are not booted into the OS. There [...]
- User Groups Overview
This document is an additional fact sheet on the differences between various user groups in Windows XP. Please read the documentation on Domain and Passwords in Windows XP before reading this document.
Every user account on a Windows XP machine is part of a local user group on that computer. A user group is a set [...]
- Log into Novell and Workstation automatically
i got a number of notebooks i need to set up. my issue is that my users don’t seem to grasp the idea of ‘workstation only.’ i found a quick and dirty hack to enable automatic login using novell. i won’t use this on teacher workstations, but i’ll selectively dole out this hack to laptop [...]
- Learning Imaging on the Job
As a school tech, I often have to push a single software change or update to a room of 30 machines. Sometimes, I need to push a bunch of updates to multiple machines across my entire school. I’ve been using my district’s standard imaging tool – Zenworks imaging – to get the job done. After [...]
- Xerox Centreware
So my school just moved to a Xerox solution for printers and copiers. Its been a mess. The techs who came out didn’t know anything about NDPS or Netware. Hell, I didn’t know very much before I got here. We decided to use DHCP – which I can control via Netware anyways – to install [...]
