[Casper] Self Service Feature REQ

[Jeff Strauss]

Just a thought, and this is probably not very elegant, but it may work...

Can you get a list of the students in the class from the teacher and then create a smart group for computers with those logged-in users? Or manually search the inventory for users and match those to asset tags? I'm not in front of my JSS at the moment so I don't know if those options are feasible.

Do students in your environment go home with their laptops or are they issued a random one on a daily basis?

Jeff

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On Jan 8, 2009, at 8:11 AM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org<mailto:tlarki at kckps.org>> wrote:


So,


It has come to my attention that certain users may need certain software and licenses are limited.  Instead of me doing bunches of manual data entries and finding out all the individual laptops (out of 6,000) and creating a smart group out of them, I would like the idea of putting a password on a self service install.  Then giving that password to that class, and so the students in that particular class can install it with their password.  Then make a smart group of all users that have that application installed to track the licenses.  I was talking to a teacher who wanted to buy 30 copies of some accounting software for a class.  I was dreading the thought of me having to track down each student, the asset tag of their computer, and creating yet another smart group, then I thought if I could just put like a password on the self service install, the student could install it them self with that password.


I know that working in a 1:1 is way different but I have users that may switch laptops due to hardware failure and I just want them to be able to install it on whatever laptop they are given.  In many cases when a laptop goes out for repair a spare is issued.


Thoughts?

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