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Preventing Students from Saving Games on the C: Drive

Need to keep students from saving games to the C: drives of school PCs? Check out this tip from James Rudd.

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Submitted by: rudd_j on Thu. 01.10.2008
Filed Under: ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, End-User Computing
Topic: Especially for School Administrators, Policies
Product: ZENworks

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Keeping Students from Restricted Websites

Garrett Pichler explains how he uses ZENworks to edit the Windows host file and keep students from accessing restricted websites from the student workstations.

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Submitted by: coolguys on Wed. 12.13.2006
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Making Sure the Workstations are set to Shutdown, not Restart

Some users in Ryan Kelly's environment forget to change the the Drop Down Menu option to "Shutdown" when they go to leave for the day. This is especially true for computer labs in schools. If the setting is not automatically set to Shutdown and is set to, say, Restart, they Restart the machine instead of shutting it down. Here's an easy fix.

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Submitted by: coolguys on Mon. 06.26.2006
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Gotcha when you use Volatile User Feature

Kevin Bryan shares a little gotcha they discovered when students were switched from generic logins to unique usernames and started losing files.

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Submitted by: coolguys on Thu. 03.30.2006
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Keeping Students from meddling with the PXE Menu

ZENworks preboot services does not provide password protection for PXE menu options, but Ryan Veety needed a way to keep the students out of the PXE menu. He explains how he did it (not for the faint of heart -- it requires some skill working with config files in Linux).

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Submitted by: coolguys on Fri. 02.24.2006
Filed Under: ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Especially for School Administrators, Workgroup
Product: Open Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, ZENworks