One of the advantages of company owned equipment is that if staff uses company provided equipment, the company may exercise rules as owners of the equipment. With the staff member the owner, he/she would thus have administrator permissions and could install whatever they wanted. And, they could install software or allow malware because the control of the laptop would be there responsibility as oppossed to company responsibility. I would recommend against it.
Murray ________________________________ From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:37 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: User wants to use their personal laptop. I've seen something recently that a number of companies are piloting something like this, Citrix being one that was mentioned. It probably depends on your setup and if any special or custom apps need to be loaded.. From: David Baca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:36 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: User wants to use their personal laptop. I have a user who wants to use their own laptop for business use. He likes the way it's set up but I have always been the one who says it's better to have the company buy one and keep personal and business separate. I see this could be an issue of privacy and also an issue of control in that i have no real say on what is installed on his machine and what if any policies can be inforced. Your thoughts? I don't want to be paranoid and i see the cost savings in having him use his own computer but am i asking for trouble in the long run. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
