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You don't want to be dealing with the basics of setting up and adminstrating your computer -- you want to be focusing on your department or college's specific, and specialized needs. Take a lot of the basic support infrastructure out of your worries.

in general

• the ability to implement group policy to force machines to use a WSUS server for updates
• antivirus installation and updating
• pushing out software such as Microsoft Office to the desktop (what other software have you all pushed out using group policy?) we don't have any software currently site licensed though so this is a bit of a tough sell-departments buy their own software
• password consolidation
• force password complexity
• local administrator password randomization and control
• redirect folders (My Documents) to network storage for a department and do regular backups
• remote assistance
• roaming profiles - profiles stored on server so you can login from multiple workstations
• easier printer access (listed in the directory)
• easier file sharing between computers

list benefits of joining WolfTech domain

• user acct creations
  • student accts
  • class groups
• paswd sync
• reporting?
• webinterfaces?
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