Getting+QA+deployed+on+your+network

**What did you do to get Quest Atlantis to run well on your school network. We are collecting case stories here of deployment strategies.**
Tell us what your network includes/entails and the strategies you used to get QA onto school computers. Add your stories here:

We set up our computer lab each year by wiping hard drives and creating an image which we clone onto the 21 machines in the Lower School computer lab, so the most recent version of QA was deployed in the lab that way the start of the year, along with the most recent version of Internet Explorer. Subsequent updates to the client and the browser were performed individually on individual machines mid-year. On PCs with only onboard video drivers (which were updated regularly) instead of video cards, QA frequently (~6 or 7 times a 45 minute lab session) would choke the video driver and display 640x480 pixellated graphics so that the only solution to the lock-up was cold-booting the machine. This actually provided a valuable technology troubleshooting experience for the students. Making sure the Internet Explorer options were set correctly was a bit of a challenge (turning off pop-up blocker, adding QA website to allowed sites, etc.), but helpful. I have ordered more resident memory and video and sound cards for the upcoming year in the hopes that we can achieve more consistent performance. The installation document at [|https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~htuzun/courses/bto303-2004-fall/proje2/QA-Kaynaklari/QA%2520Teknik%2520Belgesi.pdf] has been useful for us. Finally, I'd advocate that any teacher beginning with Quest Atlantis cook a meal or bring cookies to her or his network administrator/technician. Our adoption mid-year of a new firewall technology was only weathered via the strong friendship and mutual respect shared by my network guy and moi.
 * Nashville, Tennessee**
 * Scott Merrick (MisterMerrick):**


 * NSW DET Schools**
 * Janette Eade (Janette)**


 * To run QA on NSW DET schools it has to be installed on each individual computer (unless you have a technician who is responsible for imaging your computers). This means that if any computer has to be reformatted or reimaged QA will have to be installed again. **


 * NB Altiris** will not deploy QA on their image as it has updates. However, it can still be installed locally to each computer as below:

__**Suggested steps to installing QA on a PC**__

1. Download the software from [|http://atlantis.crlt.indiana.edu/site/view/Questers#29] 2. Place it on a network drive, so that you it can be accessed from all computers without having to download again. 3. For QA to work in NSW DET schools, the ini file has to changed with the following file: Right click on text and select "save link as" The ini file is just a text file which allows the program to get through the portal. Once you have changed this file you can copy the folder onto each computer and then run the installation. 4. Follow the instructions on this document to change the ini file and set up QA on each computer:
 * NB** When updates occur (not very frequently) download the new version and repeat all the steps.
 * If you still have problems please don't hesitate to contact me at** janette.eade@det.nsw.edu.au