New Laptop Build

Computer Build Checklist

• Admin local and domain passwords are located in our (IT Manual
• Uninstall McAfee, other bloatware as needed
• Can keep Office 365. Comes with our MS license
• Chrome – set as default
• Office 2016 (Custom Install, only Excel, Word, Publisher, PowerPoint, VisioViewer, Tools)
  • Office Product Key (Check Manual for Keys) Installation by Opening Word and add product key from pindrive to activate

Downloads

We can use Ninite to download the following items and have them installed on the new laptop builds:

• System Updates
• Updated drivers
• Zoom
• Google Drive
• Adobe PDF Reader (remove icon)
• Google Earth (teachers, optional)
• Ipevo Visualizer
• 7-ZIP (used for Visualizer extraction, optional)

Settings and Configuration

• Remove old users on PC
• Remove old versions of office
• Add computer to domain MCA mca.local
• Login to domain on computer
• Taskbar: Combine When Taskbar is Full
• Pin Word, Excel and Outlook to Start Menu and Taskbar (optional)
• Setup Email on Outlook (optional)
  • imap.gmail.com (incoming) 993 SSL
  • smtp.gmail.com (outgoing) 465 SSL
• Scans come from a mapped drive: \\mcad2\scans\
• Setup default PDF files open with Adobe Reader
• Setup default HTML files open with Google Chrome
• Remove the Edge browser desktop shorcut and Menu shortcut

Other Items

• Each teacher gets a laptop with a profile that must be signed into the domain to get their own profile.
• User must be added to the domain as staff/teacher
• Serial number entered in fortiutus by admin of fortiutus
• Laptop issued to teacher and have them login and change 1x password, setup profiles, explain how we use google drive, etc.