[BC] Company Laptops

[Bernie Courtney]

The best solution to avoid most of the problems mentioned in this thread is to just lock down the laptop before you give it to the user.  Don't give their user account admin rights to the local machine and use policy editor to lock them out of any settings you don't want them playing with.  Then they can only run the apps you have already approved and installed on the machine  and you don't have to worry about what they may try to do on their own and then come back complaining later about their "laptop acting weird".

They might call once or twice and complain about not being about to install something, and that is when you remind them about licensing, etc and usually they will get the hint and just give up.

Company laptops should be used for company business, and company business only, not as their personal PC.

Time and personal experience has shown that letting people get away with doing whatever they want on a company issued laptop is a potential recipe for disaster; and at the very least just becomes a headache if nothing more.

Bernie