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Originally Posted by stealthn
I appreciate your input, IMHO I want people to have a little more freedom with this device, ie a little more tabletesque. Try windows store and see how and why there are apps people use. I don't want a locked down device when I am on an hour flight and I can't do something. Again, my opinion.
What other than apps store and windows update did you restrict with the GPO? As well are you buying a Ethernet dongle for every device or using the same one when imaging?
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Our organization has pretty strict policies with any devices issued to the users as we have access to lot of sensitive information. So security is paramount. As well, our organization is large - 32k people. So imagine if they decided to issue just a few thousand of these and each person was able to install their own software. It would be our help desks worst nightmare. LOL. It's easier to withhold a feature initially than have to take it away later. Each organization is different and there is a lot of thought that goes into these decisions.
Most of our campuses are wifi enabled so users can roam using wifi and be on our network. They can connect to other wifi networks as needed. The decision to purchase a dongle is up to purchasing and the requesting manager. For imaging they use the same dongles. We had to tweak our pre-flight script to work around issues with imaging different systems with the same mac address.
We don't have any other restrictions on the OS. They just can't install software from the app store. They can install software from our software catalogue if it's available to them.