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The teachers at Bangor Township Schools in Michigan (US) wanted a way to monitor students’ computer screens to make sure
computers were being used for classroom projects and not games or messaging. Insight, Faronics’ classroom management solution,
allows teachers to monitor every screen and to send w (...)
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Case Study: Faronics Insight and Bangor Township Schools. ... Download <strong>Case
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2010-03-11
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The Mobile County Public School System was frustrated with frequent attacks by viruses and malware on its student and staff
workstations. The school district’s IT department searched for ways to gain more control over the multi-user computer environment.
With Faronics’ Deep Freeze servers, IT now has (...)
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Case Study: Faronics Deep Freeze and Mobile County Public School System. Source: Faronics.
Document Type: Case Study Description: The ...
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2010-03-11
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Newport Independent school district’s implementation of a formal energy-conservation policy created problems for the district-wide
computer system. Rather than having to manually shut down up to 900 computers at the end of every day, the district’s head
IT technician opted to centralize control with (...)
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Case Study: Faronics Power Save and Newport Independent School. ... Download <strong>Case
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2010-03-11
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Many organizations use limited (restricted) users and system policies and group policies to ensure users cannot access certain
areas of the computer or install most off-the-shelf software. However, these approaches require the network administrator
to be very knowledgeable, and to spend large amounts of (...)
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Faronics Anti-executable Compared to Limited (Restrictive) Users and Group Policies. Source: Faronics.
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2010-03-11
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Although students at the University of Nevada’s Reno campus were generally respectful of the campus’s computers and IT policies,
entertainment or malicious software often appeared on computer hard drives. This made machines less stable or even disabled
them entirely. To combat the problem of computer (...)
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... Source: Faronics. Document Type: Case Study Description: Although students at the University
of Nevada’s Reno campus were generally respectful of the campus ...
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2010-03-11
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Schools often need to deploy computers that offer a limited feature set, as limiting a computer’s functions is important
to protecting its purpose and keeping students focused. To lock down student workstation functionality, Newburgh Enlarged
City School District finally implemented a solution to contr (...)
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... Source: Faronics. Document Type: Case Study Description: Schools often need to deploy
computers that offer a limited feature set, as limiting a computer’s ...
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2010-03-11
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Lewis and Clark Community College in Illinois (US) was having a number of technology problems in its classrooms, leading
to student attention issues. After installing a new software solution, teachers can now share their screens with students,
provide remote assistance to students from a central console, (...)
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... Source: Faronics. Document Type: Case Study Description: Lewis and Clark Community College
in Illinois (US) was having a number of technology problems in its ...
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2010-03-11
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Student workstations at the University of Kentucky were constantly going down due to user activity—both innocent and
malicious. IT couldn’t repair all the workstations immediately, so many students had to wait to use a computer. To reduce
computer downtime and eliminate workstation damage, the sy (...)
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... Source: Faronics. Document Type: Case Study Description: Student workstations at the
University of Kentucky were constantly going down due to user activity ...
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2010-03-11
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Oklahoma City University spent a significant amount of money putting the latest computer technology and software in its classrooms.
But teachers noticed students weren’t always using these learning tools appropriately. After installing teacher management
software, instructors have total control of clas (...)
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... Source: Faronics. Document Type: Case Study Description: Oklahoma City University spent
a significant amount of money putting the latest computer technology and ...
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2010-03-11
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More and more students in classes at a senior high school were using USB drives to bring applications into the classroom.
Because allowing unauthorized programs to run on workstations presents a number of serious challenges to teachers, the school
needed to find a way to stop this behavior. Learn about t (...)
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... Source: Faronics. Document Type: Case Study Description: More and more students in classes
at a senior high school were using USB drives to bring applications ...
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2010-03-11
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Coeur D’Alene School District’s director of maintenance was looking for ways to help the district save money. Knowing that
the district was spending a lot on energy and that an element of energy waste was involved, he decided to search for an energy
management solution for the district’s classroom (...)
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... Source: Faronics. Document Type: Case Study Description: Coeur D’Alene School District’s
director of maintenance was looking for ways to help the district ...
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2010-03-11
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The desire to be environmentally responsible—and save money—led Howard Community College (HCC) to green its campus.
Seeing that there was room for savings in its computing technology, HCC searched for an energy management solution that would
make workstations available when system resources a (...)
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... Source: Faronics. Document Type: Case Study Description: The desire to be environmentally
responsible—and save money—led Howard Community College (HCC) to ...
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2010-03-11
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The problems caused by malware and malicious code in the form of rootkits and Trojans are multiplying everyday. These pervasive
problems have created a new industry of antivirus and anti-spyware software. Blacklist-based software is one of the most common
response solutions. However, the relatively new (...)
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... Source: Faronics. Document Type: White Paper Description: The problems caused by malware
and malicious code in the form of rootkits and Trojans are multiplying ...
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2010-03-11
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Typically, there are two approaches to managing public access and workplace workstations: the lock-down approach, and the
reactionary approach. However, despite the variety of public access or corporate computer environments that exist, non-restrictive
technology is applicable to all of them. With this t (...)
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... Source: Faronics. Document Type: White Paper Description: Typically, there are two approaches
to managing public access and workplace workstations: the lock ...
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2010-03-11
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Educational institutions represent a unique and complex learning environment from a technological standpoint. Educational
instructors are faced with the conundrum of needing to be more knowledgeable about technology in order to ensure that students
are appropriately educated; yet they have to continual (...)
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... Source: Faronics. Document Type: White Paper Description: Educational institutions represent
a unique and complex learning environment from a technological ...
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2010-03-11