BYOD is an example of what happens when you allow the end-user to have a hand 
in directing technology for the company. End-users don’t care about cost, 
security, or privacy and only have a general clue of how technology works, so 
BYOD makes sense to them. Speaking with a MDM vendor this week at TechEd, they 
also agree that BYOD doesn’t work and ends up costing the company a lot of 
money.


IT needs to take back control, but it has to be a much gentler message than 
“nope, you can’t do that.” 



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From: Thompson, Joseph W (Joe)
Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎June‎ ‎6‎, ‎2013 ‎3‎:‎21‎ ‎PM
To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com



Agreed Rod, IT makes it so hard for the user to do their jobs, they go around 
us to find solutions that work for them, instead of supportable solutions 
implemented by IT

 



From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of rodtr...@myitforum.com
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:17 PM
To: SMS
Subject: Re: [mssms] Disable SkyDrive in Office 2013 deployment

 



Have to be careful with that statement.  Similar statements are what has caused 
the avalanche of users who want BYOD and attempt to overrun or go around IT for 
things.



 


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From: Dzikowski, Michael
Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎June‎ ‎6‎, ‎2013 ‎3‎:‎00‎ ‎PM
To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com


 


Sure, people can get around things…But we should make it as difficult as 
possible for “Joe User”…

 

Right? 

 



From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Thompson, Joseph W (Joe)
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:53 PM
To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [mssms] Disable SkyDrive in Office 2013 deployment

 

If a system allows you to export data, you do not disable your USB ports, or 
have laptop and home users, disabling SkyDrive is just an illusion of security….

 



From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Dzikowski, Michael
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 2:28 PM
To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [mssms] Disable SkyDrive in Office 2013 deployment

 

For financial companies, or really any company with sensitive data, I wouldn’t 
want users to assume or think they are to be saving documents in the cloud/sky 
drive.  Or “taking” data….

 

Cool idea. Just not in an enterprise. 

 

 

 

 



From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Ryan Finnesey
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:06 PM
To: <mssms@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [mssms] Disable SkyDrive in Office 2013 deployment

 


What do you not like about the SkyDrive integration?

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On Jun 6, 2013, at 12:05 PM, "Aguero, Tom" <ague...@bakerconcrete.com> wrote:



My company is moving up to SharePoint 2013 and the SharePoint team is asking us 
to look into deploying Office 2013 due to the integration features. So far 
we’ve been testing Office 2013 in IT and the only problem we have is the 
prominent integration of SkyDrive. 

 

Does anyone know if there is a way, via the Office 2013 admin setup or GPO, to 
disable SkyDrive but keep the SharePoint syncing features?

 

Thanks in advance!

 


Tom Aguero

Technical Support

Shared Services | Information Technology

900 N Garver Rd, Monroe, OH 45050

Phone: 800.834.8001

techsupp...@sharedservices.cc

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