no more admin privileges on my work PC

[paulxcook]

It's been 2 years since I've had to deal with "user" privileges on a work machine, but the machines at my new place of employment are locked down pretty well. Ugh it is terrible, I hate IE 6, I hate the "classic" XP theme I'm stuck with, I hate not being in control. And I went from having zero website filtering to very restrictive. I'm sure I'll feel better about all this once I get that first paycheck, but this sucks.

 

[GhettoFob]

That sucks.

 

[Woosta]

Get a new job.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Install whatever I want minus Forefront and the programs that are preinstalled by IT. I can run FF if I want to, install whatever SS, wallpaper, etc.

 

[Patt]

I do now ... but didn't for the previous 5 years ... well, not legitimately anyway, but I found the way

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: Woosta
Get a new job.

I just got a new job. I'm not giving up a 50% pay increase so I can have admin rights. I am bitching about it, though.

 

[Woosta]

How the hell do you manage? This certainly isnt an IT position is it?

 

[George P Burdell]

At all my campus jobs: No

At all my internships: Yes

 

[Soundmanred]

No Myspace?!

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: Woosta
How the hell do you manage? This certainly isnt an IT position is it?

Lol it's actually a senior systems admin position. Even the director doesn't have admin rights and has to call desktop to change things on his machine. I have admin rights to our servers but my own desktop might as well be in a public library.

 

[amdskip]

IE6 FTL, you should point out the security concerns with it.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: Woosta
How the hell do you manage? This certainly isnt an IT position is it?

Lol it's actually a senior systems admin position. Even the director doesn't have admin rights and has to call desktop to change things on his machine. I have admin rights to our servers but my own desktop might as well be in a public library.

how common is this?

 

[Vehemence]

Assistant network admin, have admin rights locally. It's a waste of time otherwise, at least here.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: Woosta
How the hell do you manage? This certainly isnt an IT position is it?

Lol it's actually a senior systems admin position. Even the director doesn't have admin rights and has to call desktop to change things on his machine. I have admin rights to our servers but my own desktop might as well be in a public library.

You're a systems admin and you don't have admin rights on your own machine? Ooooookay. I can appreciate a company restricting users, but that's a little absurd.

 

[aphex]

Would portable apps work?

 

[Bignate603]

I don't have it right now, at my company the newest image on pcs is set up to not allow admin privileges. Everybody is avoiding upgrading and quite a few that are up for new machines are avoiding putting in the request.

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: aphex
Would portable apps work?

Possibly, I haven't tried yet. Portable FF would of course be a good place to start.

Originally posted by: trmiv
You're a systems admin and you don't have admin rights on your own machine? Ooooookay. I can appreciate a company restricting users, but that's a little absurd.

That's what I think. It seems crazy to me.

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: Woosta
How the hell do you manage? This certainly isnt an IT position is it?

Lol it's actually a senior systems admin position. Even the director doesn't have admin rights and has to call desktop to change things on his machine. I have admin rights to our servers but my own desktop might as well be in a public library.

how common is this?

At my place of business? Very. One dept. owns most of the computers, printers, servers, networking equipment, etc, and keeps a death grip on it all. I'm not even sure there's a way to get admin rights unless you're part of that dept. However I've only been there one day so there may be a way I just don't know about.

 

[her209]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9000

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

I have GOD admin rights. actually just locally.

 

[nageov3t]

we run everything off of thin clients -- people remotely connect to an app server and that's what they use all day. no one has admin access except our internal IT guys.

no one has anything resembling a local desktop machine.

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: loki8481
we run everything off of thin clients -- people remotely connect to an app server and that's what they use all day. no one has admin access except our internal IT guys.

That is probably what we will eventually move to. *shudder*

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: loki8481
we run everything off of thin clients -- people remotely connect to an app server and that's what they use all day. no one has admin access except our internal IT guys.

That is probably what we will eventually move to. *shudder*

And eventually wind back up to monochrome tty terminals.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: paulxcook

Originally posted by: loki8481
we run everything off of thin clients -- people remotely connect to an app server and that's what they use all day. no one has admin access except our internal IT guys.

That is probably what we will eventually move to. *shudder*

And eventually wind back up to monochrome tty terminals.

"monochrome...it's the new Pantone"

 

[Goosemaster]

I can understand why they do it (if they do so for the right reasons), but in many cases it hinders productivity and affects employee moral to the point of nullifying any possible gains.

 

[Chiropteran]

I have admin rights on *all* the computers at work.