Sitting in a cart powered off or asleep seems to be the main problem here. You can use MCX (via scripting or WGM) to schedule a boot/reboot/wake time. If you schedule this during off-hours, and then have a software update policy following closely behind, this should solve the issue, assuming the machines are connected to your network while in the cart.<div>
<br></div><div>At one school I worked with, we had a closet built with a secure lock, ventilation, power and ethernet. The laptops went into this closet over the weekend where they could sit on the network and receive any maintenance or updates.</div>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">If you have a SUS set up you can say run all approved updates from the SUS and such.</font></p><div class="im"><br><br><br>___________________________<br>Thomas Larkin<br>TIS Department<br>
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<div></div><div class="h5"><br>What we have been doing is just pulling them off the cart, running Casper Remote on them and telling them to "Install all available updates". Its a pain, but it seems to be the best way to do it. </div>
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Greetings.<br><br>How do you handle software updates on laptop labs? We have carts of <br>laptops in our schools, and, if they are not being used by a student, <br>they are charging in the cart. That doesn't provide for a nice way to <br>
update them after hours without pulling each machine out of the cart, <br>and yet, I don't really want to pop up a message to a student saying, <br>"Your computer is going to reboot now. Deal with it!"<br>
<br>Also, when you use the GUI tools to do software update, the machine <br>logs out and you get a nice progress indicator showing that updates <br>are installing. Is there any way to do that from the command line? <br>
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