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I was wondering what the members of the list are using for managing teaching labs. We have a 15-seat training lab that we use Ghost to periodically return to a clean state. This system works fine, but requires a fair amount of time to create the images and deploy them. What do you use? Are there any open-source/free alternatives? Ideally, I'd like to be able to set something up that would return the systems to a clean state at a preset interval, or possibly at login. Deploying Microsoft patches, virus software updates, etc would also be an issue. Another issue would be how to maintain some kind of static file space so that users attending a multi-day course could save their files and still have access to them after a system refresh. Would another partition on the system be the best way to handle this? AFS space? Any thoughts on this topic would be very helpful and greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matt Farra -- /-------------------/-------------------/-------------------/--------------- ----/ Matthew Farra Microcomputer Hardware/Software Coordinator Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services, Michigan State University email: [log in to unmask] - phone: 517.432.3720 - fax: 517.353.1821