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My company's IT bans installing anything outside of their software application management/installation application. All software goes through a laborious approv

by kawfey 4y ago

My company's IT bans installing anything outside of their software application management/installation application. All software goes through a laborious approval process. Webapps like this are very useful to me.

sshine 4y ago
My employer’s IT policy is to require asking for permission to access a laptop’s administrator account, and have the sysadmin audit the log. Unfortunately, as part of my special duties, I need to run an operating system that is not compatible with this framework.
- lhoff 4y ago
  > Unfortunately, as part of my special duties, I need to run an operating system that is not compatible with this framework. Sadly the answer my employer has in that case: buy a VMWare Workstation License in the store and use you special snowflake OS in there. Still better than nothing but also a bit annoying.
  - rileymat2 4y ago
    Is this a problem? I am sure it is not a common workflow, but I have done most of my work inside VMS pretty much exclusively for years. It makes it so easy to freeze the state of a project, do backups, quick snapshots. Archive finished projects. Removes any fear of upgrading. Keeps work clean, I need to know project dependencies when starting a new one on a fresh VM. It keeps my base system very barebones with respect to software installed. I can also get up and running with a new host machine upgrade by simply copying the vms to the new host.
    - z3t4 4y ago
      What do you use for virtualization? And what do you use for graphics? (example Libvirt/VNC)
ParetoOptimal 4y ago
> My company's IT bans installing anything outside of their software application management/installation application. I abhor these setups. Luckly every time I've been in them it's been realtively easy to get an exception. I can't think of many situations I'd stay at a company like this unless it was very easy to get necessary software added within 3-5 business days.
- mrinterweb 4y ago
  In my experience, the IT friction is usually higher the larger the company. Since plenty of people work at large companies, restrictive IT departments is a frequent concern.

by kawfey 4y ago

sshine 4y ago

My employer’s IT policy is to require asking for permission to access a laptop’s administrator account, and have the sysadmin audit the log. Unfortunately, as part of my special duties, I need to run an operating system that is not compatible with this framework.

lhoff 4y ago
> Unfortunately, as part of my special duties, I need to run an operating system that is not compatible with this framework. Sadly the answer my employer has in that case: buy a VMWare Workstation License in the store and use you special snowflake OS in there. Still better than nothing but also a bit annoying.
- rileymat2 4y ago
  Is this a problem? I am sure it is not a common workflow, but I have done most of my work inside VMS pretty much exclusively for years. It makes it so easy to freeze the state of a project, do backups, quick snapshots. Archive finished projects. Removes any fear of upgrading. Keeps work clean, I need to know project dependencies when starting a new one on a fresh VM. It keeps my base system very barebones with respect to software installed. I can also get up and running with a new host machine upgrade by simply copying the vms to the new host.
  - z3t4 4y ago
    What do you use for virtualization? And what do you use for graphics? (example Libvirt/VNC)

ParetoOptimal 4y ago

> My company's IT bans installing anything outside of their software application management/installation application. I abhor these setups. Luckly every time I've been in them it's been realtively easy to get an exception. I can't think of many situations I'd stay at a company like this unless it was very easy to get necessary software added within 3-5 business days.

mrinterweb 4y ago
In my experience, the IT friction is usually higher the larger the company. Since plenty of people work at large companies, restrictive IT departments is a frequent concern.