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It is possible and RM provide a way to do this - see TEC1257812 on RM support. I use it on my Windows 8 non domain PC and it works OK - won't do package imports though.

What are the factors which stop your shutdown script from running? We use CC4 and the shutdown task runs fine on the vast majority of PCs in the school. The startup task is more hit and miss due to WOL not working on our older PCs. In CC4 you can also set policies for PCs going onto standby, turning HDDs off and turning the monitors off, all after a specified amount of inactivity time. We also have put SSDs in many of our PCs and this does help increase power efficiency.

See here for the switches you can use with the user client tool: User Client Options Have you tried the --noquit option?

Agreed! We did our hardware refresh and wound up with i3s with SSDs rather than i5s with HDDs after we demonstrated to the business manager an old Core2Duo with SSD booting up, logging on and opening programs minutes faster than a brand new PC - i5 with a HDD!

Have you tried pressing the home button 3 times?

Yep, it's not just Stone PCs, we have had to replace pretty much every single one in our Viglen PCs from 2009-2010, at least once (same PSU model)!

Thanks for that, I had all the data but in one fragment. I've removed that and put in separate reg files and it works now! Thanks for your help.

Yes agreed about Advanced Installer. I also use "Appdeploy repackager" as a last resort, although be careful with this as you can get a lot of messy MSIs with unwanted registry information and files unless you know exactly what needs to be in the MSI! If you let us know what software you are having trouble with we might be able to help - most educational software I have come across already comes with a silent installer or switches for a silent install.

Thanks for your thoughts, we do have IE11 deployed as a 'back-up' but as we use Google Docs substantially, Chrome is what most people use by default as Google Docs generally donesn't render as well in IE.

Hi, we have a recurring problem with student and teacher accounts whereby if they click on the Chrome icon in the taskbar or from a start menu shortcut, Chrome refuses to open. After a profile reset this works again so it looks like something is being corrupted in the user's profile to prevent Chrome opening. I originally thought it was due to the local profile as that is where the Chrome data is written to but after a profile reset behaves correctly so looks like it is something in the roaming profile. Has anyone experienced this before and know why this keeps happening? Network is RM CC4/Windows 7 clients. Thanks

I don't want the staff to be able to modify/add any shortcuts. I just want the shortcuts in the Users\Public\Public Desktop to appear. I have given staff read access to this folder and changed the folder redirection but it makes no difference... Thanks

Hi, does anyone know how to get all the icons of programs on that PC which are installed to show up for non-admins? When I log in as an admin user I get all the icons, as a standard user I only see RM Network recycle bin. Have spoken to RM who say this is not possible and to use the start menu, but I'm sure it is possible! Is it linked to the start menu in some way? Thanks

Might also be worth checking with RM to see if deployment via GPP is possible.. They won't recommend it I'm sure but I just wondered if they might know a reason/reasons why it wouldn't work before you go to the effort!

As far as I understand things RM uses several of its own components and exe files - namely RM Station delivery (stndeliv2.exe) on logon to map/unmap printers and drives. You could try ignoring the management console for printers and deploying them via GPP but I don't think you'll be able to completely remove the RM printer side of things from your clients without breaking the whole way RM works, and you'll lose shared drives etc etc. You can check the stndeliv logs in C:\Program Files\Research Machines\Network Management\LogFiles As a side note we've recently had lots of problems with printers randomly assigning themselves to user accounts and not unmapping - this was due to 64-bit drivers not being the same version and name as the 32-bit drivers so worth checking! RM's solution was to remove every printer and re-add them but I just matched up the version and printer driver names and it seems to have fixed it. Hope that helps a little bit.

This has happened to me in the past seemingly at random. It can occur months after a PC has been built after it has been working fine so I don't think it is due to missing a network driver. I think its just a RM component corrupted in some way. Anyway, the only way to resolve this (I know of) is a rebuild.