Category Archives: Labs

Posts about computer labs and classrooms at Williams College

Mac – iWork – preinstalled on all new Macs

Posted on February 17, 2017 by

According to this link: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7708588?start=0&tstart=0 iWork does not come with Sierra but is preinstalled on all new Macs. Therefore, if deploying a Mac with a format and re-image process particularly with Casper imagine, one should decide wether or not to … Continue reading →

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Java Config file and excepted sites deployment

Posted on November 29, 2016 by

Some older Java-based websites are so out-of-date that Java refuses to run unless the web site is in the “excepted sites” list. This is normally a user-specific setting however you can set this up as a system wide exception list. … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 – Installing .Net 3.5 Framework

Posted on November 22, 2016 by

Only .NET 4.0 framework is included in Windows 10 by default. However, many applications still require the .NET 3.5 Framework so to enable/install this 3.5 Framework load your install DVD into the drive and give the following command at an … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 – Word could not create the work file error

Posted on November 1, 2016 by

After an upgrade to windows 10 LTSB 2016 “anniversary” edition MS word is giving the error: “Word could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable” According to Microsoft this error occurs when Word doesn’t have permission to … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 – Hide Disk Use Percentage Bars

Posted on October 28, 2016 by

The disk in use percentage bars can be alarming and inaccurate particularly for automatically connected network shares. Therefore, I find it is best to hide those from windows users on lab/classroom computers. Open REGEDIT and navigate to: HKLM\Software\Classes\Drive Right click … Continue reading →

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Mac – El Capitan – SIP and EFI booting with rEFInd

Posted on August 16, 2016 by

A great article about using rEFInd with El Capitan which now includes SIP is at: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/sip.html

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Windows 10 – Windows To Go Enterprise Deployment Steps

Posted on July 19, 2016 by

Using a “Windows To Go” USB boot disk to provide course-specific windows programming environments Microsoft’s overview is at: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831833(v=ws.11).aspx In the Fall of 2016 – Williams will be piloting one computer science programming course using windows to go drives. In … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 – Imaging with DSIM GUI

Posted on July 18, 2016 by

Reports are that ImageX is deprecated in favor of the newer DSIM tools in windows 8 and above. Here is a link to a DSIM GUI: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdism/

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Mac – El Capitan – netboot servers must be trusted

Posted on July 5, 2016 by

The new System Integrity Protection, SIP for short, which is part of Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan) requires you to set your netboot servers as “trusted”. For details see: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205054 I added a DeployStudio script to run the appropriate commands … Continue reading →

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