Since I don't work with doctors in my capacity of IT geek, I don't know for sure. However, I was married to a critical care nurse for 7 years, and I'll put my money on the doctors.
Heh. On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 05:04, paul chinnery<pdw1...@hotmail.com> wrote: > A third of my users are doctors. I wonder which group is harder to work > with: engineers or doctors? > >> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:51:09 -0700 >> Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild >> From: kurt.b...@gmail.com >> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com >> >> Truth. However, there are also political and training issues. >> >> 1) We haven't, as a company (nor within IT) figured out how to make >> our standard apps work under under non-admin accounts. This will take >> time and resources to figure out, and then further time and resources >> to figure out how to "productionise" the application of these settings >> and apply them across the domain, including two offices overseas. >> >> 2) A large portion of our users are engineers who have a rabid >> aversion to the idea that they can't be admins on their own boxes. I'm >> in the (multi-year!) process of simply trying to convince engineering >> managers that none of the staff need two NICs in their boxes - one for >> the production LAN and one for the test/dev LAN. >> >> 3) The overseas offices are also politically resistant to this idea. >> >> While I agree that the load would be lessened, and we'd have a much >> better managed and more secure environment, this is not a trivial >> effort, and at times I despair. But, I persist, and have it as a goal >> to work toward this fiscal year. >> >> The first step is to get signoff by company management, in the form of >> an actual policy - something of which there are no good examples. >> There are practices and recommendations regarding IT, but very little >> in the way of a real IT policy that has been agreed to by management. >> >> Kurt >> >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 07:52, Jonathan Link<jonathan.l...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > After taking local admin rights away from users my plate is less full. >> > YMMV. >> > >> > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Yes, unfortunately, all our users are admins. It sucks, but I use it >> >> to my advantage when I can. >> >> >> >> The reason we've not done a GP is because we haven't had the luxury of >> >> studying to understand them. Our plates always seem to be full with >> >> other things. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 19:04, Ken Schaefer<k...@adopenstatic.com> wrote: >> >> > Are all your users admins? Otherwise, how is that logon script going >> >> > to >> >> > update HKLM? >> >> > >> >> > Machine-based startup script would be better idea, no? >> >> > >> >> > Cheers >> >> > Ken >> >> > >> >> > ________________________________________ >> >> > From: Kurt Buff [kurt.b...@gmail.com] >> >> > Sent: Wednesday, 8 July 2009 2:41 AM >> >> > To: NT System Admin Issues >> >> > Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild >> >> > >> >> > I'm just pushing out the .reg file in the login script: >> >> > >> >> > regedit /s \\fileserver\public\patches\videokillbits.reg >> >> > >> >> > The file was easy to create, in a capable editor (not notepad or >> >> > wordpad) that allows metacharacter search and replace, such as '\n' >> >> > for CRLF and '\t' for tab. I used the ancient, no-longer-supported >> >> > PFE32. I really should switch to VIM, I suppose. >> >> > >> >> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 08:40, Eric >> >> > Wittersheim<eric.wittersh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> I'm pushing out the .reg via GP. So far so good. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:38 AM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> >> >> >> wrote: >> >> >>> >> >> >>> The “Microsoft fix-it” is an MSI that I am pushing via SMS and is >> >> >>> pushing >> >> >>> fine (so far just a few test cases have it, but no issues). Beats >> >> >>> trying to >> >> >>> push out a .REG or something… >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER >> >> >>> NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION >> >> >>> (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 >> >> >>> >> >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> >> > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > ________________________________ > Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. See how. > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
