BYOD is an example of what happens when you allow the end-user to have a hand in directing technology for the company. End-users don’t care about cost, security, or privacy and only have a general clue of how technology works, so BYOD makes sense to them. Speaking with a MDM vendor this week at TechEd, they also agree that BYOD doesn’t work and ends up costing the company a lot of money.
IT needs to take back control, but it has to be a much gentler message than “nope, you can’t do that.” Sent from Microsoft Surface Pro From: Thompson, Joseph W (Joe) Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2013 3:21 PM To: [email protected] Agreed Rod, IT makes it so hard for the user to do their jobs, they go around us to find solutions that work for them, instead of supportable solutions implemented by IT From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:17 PM To: SMS Subject: Re: [mssms] Disable SkyDrive in Office 2013 deployment Have to be careful with that statement. Similar statements are what has caused the avalanche of users who want BYOD and attempt to overrun or go around IT for things. Sent from Microsoft Surface Pro From: Dzikowski, Michael Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2013 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Sure, people can get around things…But we should make it as difficult as possible for “Joe User”… Right? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thompson, Joseph W (Joe) Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] Disable SkyDrive in Office 2013 deployment If a system allows you to export data, you do not disable your USB ports, or have laptop and home users, disabling SkyDrive is just an illusion of security…. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dzikowski, Michael Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] Disable SkyDrive in Office 2013 deployment For financial companies, or really any company with sensitive data, I wouldn’t want users to assume or think they are to be saving documents in the cloud/sky drive. Or “taking” data…. Cool idea. Just not in an enterprise. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Finnesey Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:06 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mssms] Disable SkyDrive in Office 2013 deployment What do you not like about the SkyDrive integration? Sent from my iPad mini On Jun 6, 2013, at 12:05 PM, "Aguero, Tom" <[email protected]> wrote: My company is moving up to SharePoint 2013 and the SharePoint team is asking us to look into deploying Office 2013 due to the integration features. So far we’ve been testing Office 2013 in IT and the only problem we have is the prominent integration of SkyDrive. Does anyone know if there is a way, via the Office 2013 admin setup or GPO, to disable SkyDrive but keep the SharePoint syncing features? Thanks in advance! Tom Aguero Technical Support Shared Services | Information Technology 900 N Garver Rd, Monroe, OH 45050 Phone: 800.834.8001 [email protected]
