You clearly have not ever worked in a formal IT department in a corporate environment. Frankly, if corporate executive management knew it was possible, they'd have us implement software restriction policies to only allow Outlook, Excel, Word, Project, and Internet Explorer to run in the first place.
Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:08 PM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Save XP! > > IT is generally charged with making sure corp. stuff works, not to lord > over employees like gods. > > DHSinclair wrote: > > Thanks Ben, > > That is really what I was trying to not so gracefully get to. > > I agree with this totally. IT gets to be "internet" COP. That is > what > > the > > folks are paid for. Whether we like this or not is a separate > discussion. > > Best, > > Duncan > > > > At 18:24 01/15/2008 -0500, you wrote: > >> Yes you most certainly prevent people from attaching any sort of > >> device to a computer. > >> > >> How is this playing God if these are corporate PC's? Users plugging > >> in ipods, flash drives, etc. is a security risk. End users should > not > >> be using their company owned computers for anything but doing work. > >> > >> Anthony Q. Martin wrote: > >>> > >>>> One of the big things I'm looking forward to is the new ability to > >>>> block > >>>> hardware installation by device ID via GPO. I would absolutely > love to > >>>> prevent people from attaching their iPods to machines on my > >>>> network...\ > >>>> > >>> You can't prevent people from attaching their iPods to their > >>> machines. Perhaps you can prevent them from using them as they are > >>> intended to be used.... > >>> But why do you need to play god? > > > >
