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One thing that you can do, is as a matter of policy, wipe all the machines on a fairly regular basis (maybe once a week). This gets people in the habit of expec
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y ago
One thing that you can do, is as a matter of policy, wipe all the machines on a fairly regular basis (maybe once a week). This gets people in the habit of expecting their machine to be ephemeral and to store their documents and other work in a central location that is backed up.
- kbar13 7y agolet me know if that actually works in practice
- merlincorey 7y agoI'm not sure about the weekly cadence, but my organization currently has plans to wipe devices and rebuild from scratch at least annually. It could probably even work quarterly without too much lost productivity... Then again, doing it weekly might work out such that you get really good and fast at doing these wipes, so it becomes unnoticed. Hmmm, maybe we should review these annual plans...
- giancarlostoro 7y agoAt my job at a local college we had Deep Freeze installed on all our systems. Students and everyone was told to bring their own thumb drives or backup files to the cloud. It worked out just fine.
- shakna 7y agoSeveral places I've worked used boot images - every reboot restored the drive to a universal state. It works fine. You redirect a user's folders to the network share, and people get used to it fairly quickly.
- sbr464 7y agoWhich reality do you live in? Edu? Library?