We are experiencing an issue that I believe many unmanaged small or medium networks are also dealing with. Some details:
- Any # of users can access our machines, we use active directory, students and faculty are constantly moving from computer to computer.
- People have consistently complained that the bouncing LiveUpdate icon in the dock is "annoying" and we've been repeatedly asked to take care of the thing.
- We use DeepFreeze, so our updates rely heavily on scheduling. For whatever reason, LU does not cooperate even with a schedule set by each individual computer's administrator account. The update still opens at every login and eats up unacceptable amounts of bandwidth (thanks to 150mb updates that don't stick due to DF).
- We have worked with SEP staff to attempt utilizing symbolic links to avoid the frozen drives, that didn't work. We don't mind keeping LU on a schedule, but it doesn't behave! We've tried copying the user profile into a template, but it doesn't seem that LU keeps it's schedule in the user library, so for each new user a blank schedule appears, leading to an immediate automatic update.
What we would like, is to have LU remain inactive for any user until called upon by the schedule, which doesn't require a quiet update but it would be nice. Has anyone achieved solace??? This is becoming more than just a nuisance.