password1234 Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 Hi guys Schools just purchased a bunch of laptops purely for home use only - its for special needs students / low income type Non of them are domain joined they are for setup standalone with standard office and internet giving the student local login as a power user Going to install meraki to manage the laptops The students will keep them for a year then bring it back to the school Does anyone have any suggestion or recommendation on clearing them down each time we get them back? Previously the tutors was just deleting user profiles down and documents We could create a WDS image and then just reimage them each time they bring it back, however we work for an LEA and the teachers wont know how to use WDS or know how to update the Image Anyone have any recommendations or solutions?
snagrat Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 If you set them up in Intune using AutoPilot you could use AutoPilot Reset to wipe the device at any time and allow it to auto enrol back in as a managed device
MatthewL Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 Why not domain join them and connect them back via direct access/always on VPN, will least keep them managed and control over them?
strawberry Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 lets hope they don't uninstall meraki if they are power users then! I think you've hit the nail on the head, clearing profiles ins't enough if they are power users. it needs to be reimaged. WDS is your best option and they will just need to pay for someone to update the image and train staff to deploy the image.
keyboards Posted February 2, 2020 Posted February 2, 2020 This is where, ideal world you go Chromebook Can you not just rebuild them ever year? 1
msi_school Posted February 3, 2020 Posted February 3, 2020 We use direct access and keep them on the domain, this way we have full control and by forcing the users to save to the network we have backups.
thimon Posted February 3, 2020 Posted February 3, 2020 As @keyboards has said, just rebuild them? If you have SCCM or similar setup it shouldn't take long at all.
PotNoodleTech Posted February 3, 2020 Posted February 3, 2020 I'd probably just rebuild them using MDT. It's a 15 minute job for a standalone image with little software on and you can shove a bunch of them building at a time. 1
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