Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

Tim Lane wrote:
> We are receiving an increasing number of requests from staff to remotely
> access their desktops, for a variety of reasons.

Hi, Tim,
We tend to disallow this access, if for no better reason that everyone runs DHCP here and
finding the endpoint could be tricky...

I take such requests as a sign we're not providing sufficient resources in central IT to
meet the need. They should be able to obtain access to the data, documents, etc they need
securely but without requiring the desktop. Anything that critical should be on my servers
somewhere where we can watch it, back it up, provide UPS, etc.

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