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From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Allowing or not Allowing iTunes on corporate computers???? I'm glad that Microsoft doesn't waste any disk space with updates that have already been applied. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Allowing or not Allowing iTunes on corporate computers???? Intuit makes Apple and Adobe look like paragons of resource conservation. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr <[email protected]> wrote: Regardless of the issues of streaming, let me fill you on on some things about Apple products - especially when related to iTunes: They are worse than Adobe. 1. Their update process can break easily, more often on 64bit. I'm not saying it common, but its easy. And its not easy to fix. IME it frequently requires a manual wipe of some kind. 2. They cache all of their installation files. Just like what Adobe Reader and related products do, they save/store install files of every single downloaded "upgrade" that they process (firmware as well). As well as multiple backups of devices that are attached/synched, and other crap. If you are space-strapped, and have finite backup/sync windows - your processes can be seriously impacted. I've seen backups impacted by 10GB of older/cached upgrades of Apple products per user. It just keeps growing over time until you manually delete it. I've been a bit of a backup whore recently, so this in turn has made me a disk-space analyst as well. I am extremely annoyed with Apple, Adobe, and Quickbooks especially. Some of it can be easily compensated for with scripts. Some of it, not so easily scripted without non-builtin tools. -- Espi On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:38 PM, justino garcia <[email protected]> wrote: iTunes removal has come up in our office. What is norm are you allowing iTunes on the network? -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
