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<DIV>Dan:</DIV>
<DIV>Thank you for taking the time to provide such a detailed response! We had to move to local profiles only earlier this year, but kept the option for students using AT to maintain a roaming profile. Sounds like this should still, for the most part, work. </DIV>
<DIV>Again, thanks so much!</DIV>
<DIV>Shawn</DIV>
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<DIV>Shawn Foster<BR>Assistive Technology Specialist</DIV>
<DIV>Disability Services for Students<BR>Southern Oregon University<BR>V/TTY: (541)552-6213</DIV><BR><BR>>>> On 5/29/2008 at 4:49 PM, in message <Pine.WNT.4.64.0805291642500.5816@ATL-Dan2>, Dan Comden <danc@washington.edu> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 7px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 15px; BORDER-LEFT: #050505 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f3f3f3">We continue to use DeepFreeze in our major computer labs here at the <BR>University of Washington, including AT-dedicated workstations as well as <BR>a bunch of general use workstations with AT software installed. It is a <BR>great timesaver.<BR><BR>The only software where we're addressing user profiles is with <BR>NaturallySpeaking -- on those stations we're using a program called <BR>junction.exe to point the user files to a thawed partition on the hard <BR>drive. These thawed partitions are vulnerable, however and while we've <BR>been using them for a couple of years now, there have been two instances <BR>of them being deleted by other users.<BR><BR>For custom user settings with specific software, I've worked with students <BR>who tend to use a particular workstation to set up the relevant software <BR>as they need, save those settings while the machine is thawed, then teach <BR>them how to load those settings as needed.<BR><BR>We're currently exploring options to make these settings files reside on a <BR>server. Unfortunately because Windows doesn't provide permissions to <BR>applications separately from users, this is a challenge. We are <BR>reconsidering use of roaming profiles for a very small subset of students <BR>on campus. We currently don't have resources to pursue this option though.<BR><BR>We've rolled out ZoomText on a ten seat license to a few hundred machines <BR>and it seems to be working well so far. With the use of macro software and <BR>user training, it's completely conceivable that students could maintain <BR>their own user settings file on a USB drive.<BR><BR>-*- Dan Comdendanc@washington.edu<BR> Access Technology Lab<A href="http://www.washington.edu/computing/atl/">http://www.washington.edu/computing/atl/</A><BR> University of Washington UW Technology Services<BR><BR><BR>On Thu, 29 May 2008, Shawn Foster wrote:<BR><BR>> I remember seeing some posts quite some time ago about Deep Freeze and <BR>> difficulties with various AT packages that use user profiles. If you are <BR>> using Deep Freeze on your campus, would you drop me a line and let me <BR>> know how it's working with your AT software? Does it interfere with the <BR>> use of user profiles, and how have you managed it? We run JAWS, <BR>> ZoomText, and Kurzweil on our network (Kurzweil goes in this summer, <BR>> anyway) and Dragon as a machine-specific install.<BR>><BR>> Thanks in advance!<BR>> Shawn<BR>><BR>> Shawn Foster<BR>> Assistive Technology Specialist<BR>> Disability Services for Students<BR>> Southern Oregon University<BR>> V/TTY: (541)552-6213<BR>><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Athen mailing list<BR>Athen@athenpro.org<BR><A href="http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org">http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org</A><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>