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+Ansible playbooks for deploying classroom computers. Run with something like:
+
+    ansible-playbook --user <AD admin> --ask-pass \
+        --become-user=<local admin>
+        --inventory hosts winsetup.yml
+
+    ansible-playbook --user <local admin> --ask-pass \
+        --inventory hosts linsetup.yml