Separate DEV environment that has the same security settings as Production. They can be admins (even Domain Admins) in their own environment.
Moving through Test and UAT, increasing levels of change control are implemented, and the developers no longer have admin privileges. Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 18 September 2010 2:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Software development companies and internal systems management... For those of you in software development companies - how do you handle development machines vs. normal employee use machines as far as managing patches, AV, level of local user permissions, etc. you don't have them on a separate subdomain or anything do you? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ 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
