From: John Cuccia 

As a former corporate IT dweeb I agree.

Despite the whining, life got much easier when we locked down desktops and
implemented a software delivery system to prevent users from running to
Best Buy for a copy of whatever piece of software they thought they needed
on that day.

Those machines belong to the corporation, not to the employees of that corporation.

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:33:21 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>In this day and age with all the instances of identity theft from a
>corporate environment I'd tend to agree with John on the lockdown of PCs.
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>"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
>news:44c0d58e{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Yuh know ... I'm somewhat technically more competent than most
users but,
>>> frankly, in the corporate environment the rules change and locking down
>>> corporate assets so that they work properly all the time is the proper
>>> function of "the business" operations.  You don't
let fork lift truck
>>> operators perform modifications on fork lift trucks - you bring in the
>>> appropriate technical expertise to do that.
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>> We're kind of small to be considered in that class.
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>> It's definitely a trade off I'll agree.  It costs money to lock things
>> down like that, just like it costs money for me to keep things running as
>> is --  it all depends on one's situation which might be cheaper in the
>> long run, and you have to keep in mind that user happiness is important
>> too.  For my shop, it's definitely cheaper for me to react than it would
>> be to be proactive, plus I get the bonus of the users thinking they have a
>> little bit of control of their own "stuff".
>>
>>>As long as the  functionality exists in windows to lock it down in a
>>>corporate  environment, you are almost derelict in your duty if
you do not
>>>do that.
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>> Er, no.
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>> --
>> Bob Comer
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>> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
>> news:op.tc1g2ulzm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>>> Yuh know ... I'm somewhat technically more competent than most
users but,
>>> frankly, in the corporate environment the rules change and locking down
>>> corporate assets so that they work properly all the time is the proper
>>> function of "the business" operations.  You don't
let fork lift truck
>>> operators perform modifications on fork lift trucks - you bring in the
>>> appropriate technical expertise to do that.
>>>
>>> Ditto for PCs.  I'm at a rather large oil company right now and their
>>> desktops are locked down as tightly as you could possibly imagine.  And
>>> that hasn't stopped me from getting my job done.  As long as the
>>> functionality exists in windows to lock it down in a corporate
>>> environment, you are almost derelict in your duty if you do not do that.
>>>
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>>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:11:02 -0400, Robert Comer
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Yeah, if the users would all go home or more just
continue to call in
>>>>> sick it would make life so much more enjoyable here.
>>>>
>>>> You got that right!!   I'm working on 2 PC's right now
that had spyware
>>>> problems.  Sometimes I wish I wasn't so nice and as policy
locked down
>>>> their
>>>> desktops to the point that they couldn't do anything personal.
>>>>
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