Absolutely true, though I have worked in corporate environments.
Companies that use such a limited set of apps and impose serious
restrictions also kill off creativity, too. Probably why corp America is
such a mess these days.
Companies ought to hire more IT staff so that each would have fewer
users to manage. Then you all could provide REAL individualized support
and not stifle creativity. Controlling every mouse click a user makes
doesn't increase productivity and that says nothing about quality of
work done, either.
Greg Sevart wrote:
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
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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?
