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Mip5
February 23rd, 2010, 11:31 PM
Hey Gang,

We've got a few labs in several schools (probably 150 machines), and would like some way to manage them sustainably. In particular, we'd like to be able to configure them en masse. For example, we'd like to be able to add software to all 30 machines in a lab (rather than visiting each one individually). Or, we might add a new printer to the library lab, and would like to set up all 30 computers to print to it (again, without having to touch each machine).

I've got some experience with LTSP, and have rolled that out in two of the buildings. It's been wonderful, and achieves the goals mentioned above, but we also have several netbooks, and other machines that are not thin clients, and we'd like to be able to manage these with less effort.

Thanks for any help you can provide.