Faronics DeepFreeze
Faronics Deep Freeze Enterprise makes PCs indestructible. It protects endpoints by Freezing the desired configuration set by you – the IT professional. Any unwelcome or unwanted changes users make while in-session are prevented from sticking. It’s really simple. By restarting your computers, systems are returned to the desired state. Meanwhile, user data can be stored safely on a network drive or in a ThawSpace to be retained across reboots. This helps machines run smoothly and efficiently, while giving you more up-time and boosting user productivity. The built-in Deep Freeze Enterprise Console or Core Console makes life even easier.
Deep Freeze’s central management capabilities allow you to enjoy the benefits of customizing, deploying, and managing Deep Freeze on your endpoints from one central location. Need to manage Windows Updates? Simply download them while Frozen and they’re automatically applied when machines are Thawed. Once the process is finished, machines are automatically returned to their Frozen state.
Since Deep Freeze ensures 100% workstation recovery with every restart, you can watch that mountain of support tickets shrink. Customers report an average reduction of 63%. You can also forget about accidental configuration changes, malicious software, and operating system degradation. Now you and your IT staff can get more sleep, worry less, and maybe even leave the office on time once in a while.
Deep Freeze’s central management capabilities allow you to enjoy the benefits of customizing, deploying, and managing Deep Freeze on your endpoints from one central location. Need to manage Windows Updates? Simply download them while Frozen and they’re automatically applied when machines are Thawed. Once the process is finished, machines are automatically returned to their Frozen state.
Since Deep Freeze ensures 100% workstation recovery with every restart, you can watch that mountain of support tickets shrink. Customers report an average reduction of 63%. You can also forget about accidental configuration changes, malicious software, and operating system degradation. Now you and your IT staff can get more sleep, worry less, and maybe even leave the office on time once in a while.
When computers are "Frozen", they are in a particular state where ANY changes to the computer in any way will be set back to your default settings every time a computer restarts. This includes saved files, program installations, or any sort of change done to the system, they will all be erased or reversed to the state the computer was in as it first booted up.
When computers are "Thawed", they are in a particular state where all changes done to the system will be saved, and not disregarded when computer is restarted. This is the mode you want to be in while setting up your system, installating new software, of making any changes you want saved to the operating system. (You want to "Freeze" the computers once you are finished making changes.
"Thawspace" is the name for a folder set up to NOT ERASE data upon restart. This folder is where you want to save documents, projects, or any kind of files that you do not want deleted upon the computer restarting. The size of this folder can be adjusted to your needs in the DeepFreeze console. There should be a shortcut set up to this folder on your desktop.