Sounds like some user education is in order. Next time a snide comment is made, give them a chart that shows their use of support compared to the rest of the Windows group.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: > It has been our experience that while the technical issues of MAC's > can be resolved, most issues come from the MAC users themselves. > Having got themselves a little exception to the overall IT policy, > they will often refuse to play nice with things like storing files on > network shares which are backed up. Consume support resources with > their custom needs the drain your teams time. Make constant snide > comments about Windows and support and get really irritable when you > produce the article clearly showing it was a MAC issue. > > The last time we looked at 'some groups' needs, there were Windows > versions of all the applications available but they were able to > maintain their separate resource stance. Of course we were all > sympathy when they lost a major amount of data do to their refusal to > play nice with corporate IT policy. > > Of course, I may be biased. > > Steven > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I use VMWare Fusion with a license of WindowsXP on my MacBook Pro, and > can > > launch the windows version of Outlook for the full integrated email > > experience. > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Murray Freeman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> I'm being asked to investigate the use of a few MAC's in our network. I > >> know that it would be only used by a few of our staff for graphics and a > few > >> other apps. I'm concerned about the ability of a MAC to interface into > our > >> network and Exchange Server email.Obviously we would purchase new > machines, > >> so they could be dual boot machines. I'm also aware of virtualization, > but > >> haven't looked into that as of yet. Any suggestions, warnings or > concerns > >> from anyone with this kind of experience would be greatly appreciated. > >> > >> > >> Murray > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
