I'll confess that most of our workforce is "out in the field" (>4000 users). Personally I haven't been into one of our offices for > 6 weeks.
We have a couple of ways of dealing with this: a) an optional corporate image that has baked-in the necessary stuff to handle AV, patching and so forth b) a corporate policy (plus an audit tool) for everyone else. We are lucky that we are partly owned by Microsoft (so we have all the latest and greatest tech) and as an SI most of our mobile workforce is pretty technical. Of course we have the sales force etc. that aren't necessarily technical hence option (a) Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 11:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote, on-the-road users Can't SCCM 2007 manage clients over HTTPS? I assume that DirectAccess is designed to help solve some of these problems, by basically setting up a VPN without the users need to do it manually. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2010 10:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote, on-the-road users How do you guys manage remote users' machines? I have many users that use laptops out of their cars, or desktops out of their homes, etc. that rarely, if ever actually connect to the network by wire. They'll access their e-mail through the web, and for some, that's as much contact as they have. How do you manage that type of system? Ensure security updates, AV updates, etc? Is it even possible, realistically? Any thoughts are appreciated. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
