Homer Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 Morning all! Just putting my refreshed images together, and wondered what free software everybody else is including in theirs? Hoping this can grow and help us all get a good repository of software to have as a base on all of our workstations Game Dev: Adventure Game Studio Blender Media: Audacity + MP3 Plugin GIMP InkScape MovieMaker Paint.NET Web Auth: Kompozer Robotics: CoSpace Programming: Netbeans Eclipse JDK Visual Studio Community Pyscripter Notepad++ Charting: yEd Dia Raptor And then whatever you have as part of your builds that's paid up like Office, examinations software, Impero etc My list has been put together by myself, and our Computer Science teacher Hope this grows and helps!
Cache Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 My base build is rather bare - just Windows 7 + updates. Sophos and Office installed by a script on the computer at build and everything else pushed out through gpo.
Arthur Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 (edited) Windows + Latest updates + .NET Framework 4.6 + Visual C++ Runtimes + App-V Client Everything else gets installed by SCCM after the image has been deployed (either via the task sequence or by being a member of a certain collection). Edited August 3, 2015 by Arthur
Marshall_IT Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 My base build is rather bare - just Windows 7 + updates. Sophos and Office installed by a script on the computer at build and everything else pushed out through gpo. How do you push sophos via script? Never thought of looking at it. Sorry to hijack thread btw. I just put windows and updates, everything else goes on after. Easier to update the programs that way. I've just finished removing flash, java, QuickTime and pdf reader for this reason.
howartp Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 How do you push sophos via script? Never thought of looking at it. The relevant setup exe in //server/Sophos/some/random/folder/something.exe supports silent switches. I'll check out properly if no one gets there first. (I'm on holiday at moment but still got remote access in)
Norphy Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 I tend to go for the hybrid approach. My base image gets Windows and updates etc plus it gets big packages such as Visual Studio, Office and Creative Cloud. It also gets a few odds and ends which are needed everywhere (such as the ue-v client) and a couple of things which are supremely awkward to deploy otherwise (Such as QuickTime). After that, things get pushed out in the task sequence or by application deployments in SCCM.
DrCheese Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 I have Windows Sims Office 2013 Adobe CC 2015 That's it. Everything else gets installed via GPO, or I've bodged it to work from a network share (With all the filetypes correct) - This way I keep our image ultra small & easy to keep up to date.
Cache Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 How do you push sophos via script? Never thought of looking at it. Sorry to hijack thread btw. I just put windows and updates, everything else goes on after. Easier to update the programs that way. I've just finished removing flash, java, QuickTime and pdf reader for this reason. I have this that runs in my setupcomplete script: \\server\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\ESXP\setup.exe -mng yes -crt R -updp \\server\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\ESXP\ -ouser (obfuscatedusername) -opwd (obfuscatedpassword) -s -ni Command line parameters: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/12570.aspx I took the idea from someone on here who was building Sophos to install that way, just took it a step further. I can't remember who I stole it from now. 1
Marshall_IT Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 I have this that runs in my setupcomplete script: \\server\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\ESXP\setup.exe -mng yes -crt R -updp \\server\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\ESXP\ -ouser (obfuscatedusername) -opwd (obfuscatedpassword) -s -ni Command line parameters: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/12570.aspx I took the idea from someone on here who was building Sophos to install that way, just took it a step further. I can't remember who I stole it from now. Thanks, that should help a lot and stop my techies sending machines out with no av!
Davit2005 Posted August 4, 2015 Posted August 4, 2015 Thanks, that should help a lot and stop my techies sending machines out with no av! We use a startup script provided by Sophos which seems to deploy Sophos Endpoint quite well. @ECHO OFF REM --- Check for an existing installation of Sophos AutoUpdate on 32-bit (the 'Sophos AutoUpdate Service' process) IF EXIST "C:\Program Files\Sophos\AutoUpdate\ALsvc.exe" goto _End REM --- Check for an existing installation of Sophos AutoUpdate on 64-bit (the 'Sophos AutoUpdate Service' process) IF EXIST "C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\AutoUpdate\ALSVC.exe" goto _End REM --- Check for an existing installation of Sophos Anti-Virus on 2003/XP (the SAV adapter config file) IF EXIST "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sophos\Remote Management System\3\Agent\AdapterStorage\SAV\SAVAdapterConfig" goto _End REM --- Check for an existing installation of Sophos Anti-Virus on Vista+ (the SAV adapter config file) IF EXIST "C:\ProgramData\Sophos\Remote Management System\3\Agent\AdapterStorage\SAV\SAVAdapterConfig" goto _End REM --- Deploy to Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows7/2008/2008-R2 \\SAV01\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\SAVSCFXP\Setup.exe -updp "\\SAV01\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\SAVSCFXP" -user WTCDOMAIN\soupmg -pwd soupmg -mng yes REM --- End of the script :_End 1
Sagima Posted August 4, 2015 Posted August 4, 2015 (edited) Senior School (image size 10gb) Windows 7 x64 Office 2013 Chrome Smart Notebook (teacher machines via sccm duing task sequence) Mindgenius (IT suites via sccm duing task sequence) Soloist (language lab) Sibelius (music) [remote instrument installation] Prep School (image size 27gb down from 52gb last year) As above but with Target Tracker and the extras noted on the next lines Until this year it was dozens of pieces of software - seemingly anything ever to have been suggested to any prep teacher that they might one day want to use even if they only use it once a year. This year the new it manager has been a bit stricter but it's still a lot. Everything else is available via RemoteApp (300gb raid 10, 12 cores, 64gb ram) except for about half a dozen programs used by exams/bursary/marketing SCCM manages the flash and java installations after the install Edited August 4, 2015 by Sagima
Marshall_IT Posted August 12, 2015 Posted August 12, 2015 I have this that runs in my setupcomplete script: \\server\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\ESXP\setup.exe -mng yes -crt R -updp \\server\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\ESXP\ -ouser (obfuscatedusername) -opwd (obfuscatedpassword) -s -ni Command line parameters: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/12570.aspx I took the idea from someone on here who was building Sophos to install that way, just took it a step further. I can't remember who I stole it from now. I've implemented this now so thank you, a small note though. I had to change the server location for some reason. Mine was : \\server\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\SAVSCFXP\ Instead of : \\server\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\ESXP\
MatthewL Posted August 12, 2015 Posted August 12, 2015 VLC, Flash, Shockwave, Air, Reader, 7Zip are key things I would install.
ITGURU Posted August 12, 2015 Posted August 12, 2015 Windows Office Adobe CS6 suite Anti-Virus Realplayer Adobe Air At first boot on network, GPO installs Flash, Java, Silverlight, VNC. Once PC in location, add SIMS (if teacher PC), Interactive Whiteboard Software.
Cache Posted August 13, 2015 Posted August 13, 2015 I've implemented this now so thank you, a small note though. I had to change the server location for some reason. Mine was : \\server\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\SAVSCFXP\ Instead of : \\server\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S000\ESXP\ Yeah, I've just had to update mine to that too. The Sophos Licence we had through our LA was for base Sophos only, Sophos have just retired this licence and we've had to shift across to the one which includes the firewall too.
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