Thinking ahead? I think not.

[naggy.livejournal.com]

When the State rolled out Windows XP on their workstations, it included Windows Media Player 9. By default, when you put a CD in your computer, it asks you if you want to copy it to your PC.

By default, that goes to your My Documents folder, which the State has mapped to a network location.

Result: servers that host people's documents are getting overloaded with music files, because users are downloading all their CD's.

1.) They refuse to do anything to the users, on the grounds that they provided the ability to rip CD's, even though it clearly violates the state's computer use policy.
2.) Several of us warned the administrators about this when piloting XP, but we were told that it wouldn't be a problem because users don't do that.

So instead, the network admins have to run around and delete music files off the network every week. A much better use of their time, than going back and preventing this from occurring again, of course.

Comments

[tsutton.livejournal.com]

Use AD to configure the policy so it doesn't copy the CD.

They have AD, I hope?

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

And you'd want to let the yahoos behind this fiddle with AD?

hehehehe

[jedisamui.livejournal.com]

I don't want to hear anyone complain that my tax paying dollar does not pay this admin to do his job.
hehehehe.....
Of course, my tax paying money could be put to other better uses.
:)