LanSchool - Setting multiple channels

[bwilkerson]

Is it possible to set multiple channels using the CHANNEL= in the MSI installer?

 

If I can get the LanSchool Connection Server to work the way I want I am hoping to distribute LanSchool to my teacher workstations. The problem is each department has anywhere from 1-3 laptop carts shared amongst the teachers so I want to put each cart on their own channel using the cart number and have the channels set so the teachers can just choose.

[Colindean2000]

In the utilities folder for LanSchool should be an enable channel select utility, run it (it runs very quickly) and you then be able to set multiple channels in preferences of the LanSchool console, at install you can only select one channel

 

Hope that helps

[bwilkerson]

In the utilities folder for LanSchool should be an enable channel select utility, run it (it runs very quickly) and you then be able to set multiple channels in preferences of the LanSchool console, at install you can only select one channel

 

Hope that helps

 

Thanks.. I was hoping to pre-populate the channels for the teachers because even though I made it simple and use the room number for the channels and the cart number for the laptop carts I anticipate that they will have issues based on many of my teachers and staff are baffled by the concept of a right click.

 

I assume that you cannot set multiple channels using the SetChannel utility either.

[Colindean2000]

We used the group policy templates in the Utilities folder to make various lanschool config policies which sets the teacher console on a particular machine to the relevant channel, quite possibly the policy would allow you to put in multiple channels but it's not something we've tried or had need to

 

We moved the templates into the SYSVOL folder so that they appear under computer configuration / Policies / Admin Templates / Classic Admin Templates / Lanschool Teacher 32 / 64 bit Options

 

Hope that helps further

[colacao82]

I run an command script remotely on the machines.

 

C:\Windows\System32\msiexec.exe /package \\servername\install\Applications\LanSchool\7.7\Windows\Teacher.msi CHANNEL="304" /passive

 

This will install the teacher package and set the channel. I've used channel coding as follows...

 

A = 01

B = 02

C = 03 all the way to Z = 26

 

So if I am doing D05 the the code would be 405 (4 = D and 05 is the room number)

 

Once that has done do the same command but change the MSI to student

C:\Windows\System32\msiexec.exe /package \\servername\install\Applications\LanSchool\7.7\Windows\Student.msi CHANNEL="304" /passive

 

Voila! Quick and easy Lan School install!

[dverwolf]

I assume that you cannot set multiple channels using the SetChannel utility either.

 

To set multiple channels using the "SetChannel.exe" utility, simply enclose the channel numbers in curly brackets like this: C:\SetChannel.exe {10,20,450}

There is also a multi-string registry key on the Teacher computer located in Computer\HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\LanSchool\ called "GroupChannels" which defines multiple channels.

 

Good luck with your deployment of LanSchool!