"How could you manage giving regular users the ability to install while maintaining a secure environment?" Don't put your important data on the desktop. An intr

"How could you manage giving regular users the ability to install while maintaining a secure environment?" Don't put your important data on the desktop. An intranet app over VPN is definitely safer than walking around with the company data on a laptop. I like your idea of giving people an virtual machine to worth with. I use virtual machines to do a lot of real work (as a contractor) where the corporate IT policies don't let you do work.