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    • Scott BS
      Scott B
      last edited by

      It would be nice if you could protect a host from being imaged the way an image can be protected from being overwritten.

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      • Wayne WorkmanW
        Wayne Workman
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        I’m assuming this happened to you. There is a confirmation page for imaging. And using the iPXE menu in network booting, you have to supply credentials to image.

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        • Scott BS
          Scott B @Wayne Workman
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          @Wayne-Workman said in Protect Host from Imaging:

          I’m assuming this happened to you. There is a confirmation page for imaging. And using the iPXE menu in network booting, you have to supply credentials to image.

          I was thinking for for say a lab where you want to image 30 desktops, but for the teacher pc. There all in the same room, same type of pc, get the same printers, but the teacher PC has the smartboard tools or a slew of local files they will be using the next morning ect…

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          • Wayne WorkmanW
            Wayne Workman @Scott B
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            @Scott-B The way I would handle that is by removing that one computer from the group - permanently. You could tell this to any I.T. staff you have. At my current job, nothing is stored locally; We blast everything every year no ifs-ands-or-buts.

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            • Scott BS
              Scott B @Wayne Workman
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              @Wayne-Workman said in Protect Host from Imaging:

              @Scott-B The way I would handle that is by removing that one computer from the group - permanently. You could tell this to any I.T. staff you have. At my current job, nothing is stored locally; We blast everything every year no ifs-ands-or-buts.

              Nothing should be stored locally… but we all know the only copy of that PowerPoint was the one place it shouldn’t have been.

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              • Wayne WorkmanW
                Wayne Workman @Scott B
                last edited by Wayne Workman

                @Scott-B Not if group policy prohibits the user accessing the C:\ drive.

                We’ve set it up so our students and staff can’t store EXE, DLL, BAT, MSI, PS1, and a slue of other executables - to include MP3s and some other media types. They aren’t allowed to save them period, and also cannot be run from removable media either. Zero access to the command prompt, to the control panel, etc. The list goes on, we run a fort-knox environment.

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                  ITCC
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                  I second this.

                  I came on the forum to request the same feature, thought i would check first !

                  The idea of protecting the teacher machine or a machine that has extra software is amazing !!!
                  When you protect it, you could have a notes box that displays on the machine if imaging was started, so you could give reasons for the protection.

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                  • Tom ElliottT
                    Tom Elliott
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                    Are you guys aware of image ignore?

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                    • I
                      ITSolutions Testers @Tom Elliott
                      last edited by ITSolutions

                      @Tom-Elliott said in Protect Host from Imaging:

                      Are you guys aware of image ignore?

                      Just to clarify what Tom is talking about is on the host management page next to the MAC address there are 2 checkboxes the second one is “Ignore MAC for Imaging”

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                      • I
                        ITCC
                        last edited by

                        nope, was not aware!

                        perfect i guess. Although to keep a std you could move it down and call it protect…
                        job done and easier to identity tick box.

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                        • Tom ElliottT
                          Tom Elliott @ITCC
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                          @ITCC it is set how it’s set because how it works. It’s not a “host” thing as we don’t have a decent mechanism, in my opinion, to find hosts. Because hosts are found by MAC address the simplest mechanism is to use to Mac table to work against.

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