Anti-climactic.
That’s all I have to say. You build and build something for weeks – even months; you’re all prepared, fully staffed, and things look good.
Then you wait for it like the tide of darkness unleashed by Sauron in the Lord of the Rings. But instead of being overwhelmed by evil hordes and being rescued at the last moment by a great hero (or heros as Aragorn, Legolas and Gimley often traveled together) – the rush never comes. It swells and comes right up to the brim, but never overflows.
It appears that our long hard efforts were all worth it. Students have only been on campus for about 11 days, and already we have more registered devices than at our maximum last year.
Sophos is being complicated here and their, but seems like a dream next the last-years’ High-Maintenance Command Antivirus, installed by the notorius (notoriously irritating) Patchlink. But those days have passed. When you install ANY program on 1000 machines, your bound to find some problems (some are with the software – others with the machines…. most are in fact problems with the machine in my experience).
So, long story short, Sophos seems to be the king, and life is running relatively smoothly compared to where we have been at this time in years’ past. John Rushing has gotten right into the swing of things, and is heading up the Landers Computer Lab portion of Residential Computing with great skill and enthusiasm. He has already made this process go much smoother than usual and I am expecting great things from him.
More to come later on RW2 & the Online Housing Application…