On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Joseph Heaton <[email protected]> wrote: > And these "in the field" users, which is what I have here... their machines > are not actually part of your network, correct? Not members of the domain?
Incorrect. Sorry, I should have mentioned that. Our "field users" have computers which are company owned, are domain members, and have VPN access to the corporate network. That places them within our main network security perimeter, which is why we still strongly manage them. Their regular user accounts don't have admin rights, etc. Field users are responsible for their own backups. I'll generally give them a removable hard disk drive and a script that ROBOCOPY's their data for them. Plus the script logs when it is run, so I can check that occasionally and chastise slackers. > Ben Scott <[email protected]> 4/13/2010 8:18 AM: >> We've got a couple users "in the field" who only occasionally visit >> the main office -- a few times a year. Those laptops are set to pull >> Microsoft updates directly from Microsoft, rather than our internal >> update servers. Ditto for anti-virus updates. Other applications are >> handled on a very inconsistent, ad-hoc basis. Sometimes we just wait >> until they visit the LAN, sometimes I remote in (VPN, RDP, PSEXEC, >> etc.) and do stuff. I'm not happy with this, but haven't been able to >> do anything better with our budget. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
