OIT's Unity Labs Active Directory Windows Environment

1. OIT's Unity Labs Active Directory Windows Environment

2. NoApps and MinApps images are available Apps image will be available on August 10th, we’ll announce on the Wolfprep list Imaging service Zen Imaging for pre GX760 Dell Optiplex WDS for GX760 OIT will create an image to support the upcoming GX780 List of applications is at http://oit.ncsu.edu/unity-lab-environment/fall-2009-applications Current Novell Status

3. OU layout set – July 2 Imaging service Default image – July 2  Drivers for supported hardware – July 2 GX620 GX745 GX755 GX760  All supported platforms tested  July 10  Load testing  -- July 10 Basic group policies determined --  July 10  Complete testing of basic group policies -- July 17 All group policies determined  -- July 24  Complete testing of all group policies – July 31 Begin testing of printing – July 20 AD Deployment Timeline

4. End testing of printing – August 3rd Begin testing application delivery  July 17 Complete testing application delivery July 31 All testing completed – August 3rd Migrate those Unity Labs that make up the pilot evaluation – August 10   Sullivan (29)  Honors Village (13)  FYC (21) Evaluate pilot rollout complete – September 24 Deploy to remaining Unity Labs – October 8  Migrate ClassTech classrooms – December 18  Timeline (cont'd)

5. Using campus Centralized WDS service wds@lists.ncsu.edu OIT will be providing a base Windows XP SP3 image on the WDS server with Internet Explorer 8 Office 2007 pre-installed due to GPO deployment issues Workstation Objects will need to be prestaged in the appropriate OU using hostname and MAC address Drivers for the following hardware/VMs: Dell Optiplex GX620, Optiplex 745, Optiplex 755, Optiplex 760, and Sun VirtualBox Use the PXE-all, WDS-Main, or WDS-Centennial DHCP templates Imaging Solution

6. No roaming profile Redirected folders to AFS Home (K:) My Documents IE Favorites Firefox Settings Local profile not saved after logout Cannot save to Desktop All Users Desktop icons for IE, My Documents, My Computer, Firefox and NCSU Webmail Default Desktop Settings

7. All apps will install post-imaging using Group Policy, except for Office 2007 Using the WolfTech AD software deployment architecture, you decide which apps get installed for your labs http://www.wolftech.ncsu.edu/support/support/Active_Directory/Software_Distribution Application Delivery

8. Microsoft patches provided through campus centralized WSUS servers Target groups set through Group Policy http://www.wolftech.ncsu.edu/support/support/Active_Directory/Service_Groups/WSUS/Target_Groups OS patching

9. Uses the WolfPrint Samba based printing Requires WINS settings, same as Novell environment, included in PXE-all, WDS-main, and WDS-centennial DHCP templates Additional Group Policy security settings needed to override domain defaults WolfCopy Accounted Printing

10. Support • help@ncsu.edu • wolftech-ad@lists.ncsu.edu • wds@lists.ncsu.edu • Jabber Chat Room • activedirectory@conference.jabber.eos.ncsu.edu • http://www.itecs.ncsu.edu/systems/site/pages/using-jabber

11. Governance and service groups • Active Directory Policy Committee • Active Directory Technical Committee • WDS Service Group • WSUS Service Group • http://www.wolftech.ncsu.edu/support/support/Active_Directory/Service_Groups

12. Future plans • OS upgrade • tentative plan is to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 for Fall 2010. • User file system change from AFS to CIFS, currently no timeline is available. • OIT’s plan is for a unified desktop environment that serves both administrative and academic users. • Desktop management solution

13. Questions?