Update on ST Math Activation

Yesterday I had some discussion with Mind Research regarding our ST Math activation fiasco.
At this point, here's the solution that should supposedly work. The following will describe how ST Math will work in the different environments. (Of course, pending testing and verification that this method will actually function as expected)

A network share will be created: \\do-tech\STMath$, to which all the students in the appropriate schools will have Read/Write access. This share will contain the ST Math application cache, and will be about 100Mb in size. The data being transferred to the clients upon launch is actually a fraction of this amount of data, as it depends on what game is being loaded. According to Mind Research, this should not cause too much load on the network, as they run it that way in their labs. (Again, pending our testing for this one). The reason we will do this, is so that we can have a central location of the application, and at the time of an update release, we won't have to touch the individual workstations, but rather, just update the central application cache share.

Given that our labs all have DeepFreeze on them, and all of them have T: drive. (regardless of whether ST Math was actually installed in this drive.), we will use the T: drive as the base path to store the ST Math activation information. This is so that the activation doesn't get lost in the process of rebooting on frozen workstations.  Since, in the physical labs, all the workstations are deep-frozen, this should not be a problem.

In the virtual environment, in the case of Cortez and Walnut, we will have to mimic that T: drive so that the activation also doesn't get lost when we rebuild the lab workstation pools. (I have doubts about this working, but Mind Research says it will... so we'll see.) . In this case we will create a share. (undetermined as of yet), and map it with the logon script to drive letter T:, effectively mimicking the same scenario in the deepfreeze lab.

Once our environment is all the same, they will be sending us on (1 file) application, which is essentially a custom browser, which has the special requirements for ST Math embedded. This browser will sit on a network share, and will have a shortcut placed on the workstation desktops.

At this time, I am waiting on Mind Research to customize that client and send it over to me, so that I can do some testing on it and verify that everything works.

For any questions/concerns, please see me.