Re: Laptop Management

["Basgen, Brian" <bbasgen () PIMA EDU>]

Hi Rob,

 We encountered the issue of IT laptop management when we did our full disk encryption project. :)

  1. We centrally manage some laptops via a checkout process.
  2. Central IT buys all laptops for the college, with the exception of grants.

 FWIW, we found it essential to divide laptops into "academic" and "staff" for the purposes of our FDE project. We also 
found that before we did any software installation, it was essential to round up all laptops and do basic maintenance 
on laptops that hadn't seen the network in months or years.

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Brian Basgen
Information Security
Pima Community College
Office: 520-206-4873

On Sep 8, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Robert Clifford wrote:

Good morning.  I'm reviewing our current laptop position and was wondering how other colleges/universities handle 
laptops.  Options include (but not limited to):

1. Centrally managed - are they checked out from a single repository where a name is tied to the laptop 
(accountability) & checked back in when done?
2. Campus departments buy and manage their own inventory (making it difficult to assign a static owner per device) & 
may or may not tie into the centralized IT department

If your school has a different approach to laptop management, I'd also like to hear them.

Your thoughts are very much appreciated.

Thank you,

Rob


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