[Discuss] how to manage a bunch of ms boxes?

[eric.chadbourne at gmail.com (Eric Chadbourne)]

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Hi All,

I have a public computer lab with a little under 40 windows PCs.  The
teachers and students are always finding novel ways to break them.
They must run Windows.  As the sole IT guy in our org keeping these
machines working is eating up too much of my time.

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to keep these boxes running?

Here's what I'm currently thinking of doing.  Install Ubuntu and
virtualbox on all of them.  Upon automatic login a shell script starts
that checks for the latest windows image.  If the PC already has the
latest image then start virtualbox in full screen mode else download
image and then start vb.  This way every user has the same exact
'computer'.  It will make my life and the teachers lives easier.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Eric
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