I have used managed Deep Freeze for several years and it is phenomenal.

It will do exactly what you need..

The only trick is to make it effective in having an area “unthawed” to allow some data to be retained on the machine..

You need to partition a separate drive because the only way to setup Deep Freeze to allow unfrozen areas.. is by a drive letter.. forcing that partition to be setup first

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From: Peter Cole [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:55 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Mac clients?

Yeah, I was just going to suggest DeepFreeze.  I have not used it personally, but have heard great things about it’s Windows equivalent.

 -P


On 11/13/08 9:43 AM, "Michael Surato" <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:

DeepFreeze has a Mac client (http://www.faronics.com/html/dfmac.asp). I believe this will do what you are looking for.
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>>> On 11/13/2008 at 9:38 AM, MSU Network Administrators Group
<[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We will be running 2 where each of 25 students will use a Macbook with
> pre-installed software but will need to access the internet to do their
> assignments.  We would like the Macs to return to a clean disk image after
> each class.
>
> It has been suggested that we either:
>
> 1) Have the Macs run as clients from a server that will store all the
> changes and the data
>
> or
>
> 2) Have the Macs boot to a server after class is over to install the
> standard image again.
>
> I think the campus computer labs do a combination of 1 and 2 above?
>
> I'm not a Mac person so I'm not sure if other solutions exist - we'd like
> to do without a server if possible.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Suggestion?
>
> Thanks
> Cheryl
>
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