Re: Desktop Administrator Question

[Kevin Shalla <kshalla () UIC EDU>]

Here at UIC, individual departments decide this.  I decided no admin 
rights for mine (with a few exceptions) - about 170 desktops.

On 1/31/2012 5:12 PM, Johnson, Jeff wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> DePaul is currently evaluating how we have access rights and roles 
> setup on desktop/laptop computers at the institution.  We currently 
> give all employees administrator rights to their desktop computer.  
> Our understanding is that most institutes of higher education are 
> offering employees of the institution administrator rights on their 
> desktops, but we would like to validate this to satisfy some questions 
> from some others (particularly internal audit folks).  As such, we 
> were interested in gathering some more concrete data on this and have 
> created a very short and simple (4 question) survey to capture this 
> information.    We would very much appreciate your participation if 
> you are able, and we will share the results for everyone via email 
> (cleansing any personal information you choose to enter prior to doing 
> so of course).  If you would rather pass this on to colleagues 
> involved in desktop administration and support, that would also be 
> most appreciated.
>
> Here is a link to the survey: 
> http://depaul.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6lNkqctZNQ5BZaI
>
> Thank you so much for your help!
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff Johnson
>
> Infrastructure Support Manager,
>
> Information Systems,
>
> DePaul University