You know whats funny about this - the internet which you used to post this was a government run project that was delivered on time and under budget (source: I heard that on one of Cringely's interviews with one of the principle architects on PBS)
Internal WSUS - duh...
I think if your a company that relies on XP (not the POS edition) and you haven't isolated them on a special - no internet vlan - you have bigger issues than making sure your XP machine has security updates.
Do you remember her campaign? Vote for me - I know how to run a government like a business. It turns out - no she doesn't.
I'm sorry - but if you dish it out you have to take it too.
Its funny - the CEO at most corps are one of the few employees with an empoyment contract.
Why not? The infrastructure in place to keep cars rolling along costs more than public transit - and in America at least the cost is mostly footed by the county/state and federal government.
If you think vehicle and gas taxes cover it - your fooling yourself.
in 2012 you can also silo your admins and set it up so its impossible (without messing up security) to re-image machines you don't own (like servers, or another departments desktops).
I know a SCCM Microsoft PFE who has told me horror stories about customers doing this and paving their exchange server with Windows 7. I think it happens, but you don't read about it on a publicly readable website.
Its happen in my IT shop - although not nearly as bad as this story implies.
In our current CM 2012 environment we split Servers and Desktops and limited by security scope who can run queries and add servers to collections.
We had a similar incident at the place I work - the tech did a select * from r_system on a live required deployment - they shut off the DP (distribution point) after about 450 machines got imaged. I was actually impressed how efficient it was
For those who don't know - that query basically tells the site server to build a collection of every computer (including servers) with a forced deployment of a new OS. CM 2012 will actually warn you if you type that kind of query in - so you'd have to click through that warning and keep going.
SCCM only suports PXE booting to run a task sequence - Mac's can't really boot off PXE.
I should clarify - there's two ways to image a PC with CM 2012 (formerly SCCM) - if the deployment is setup this way: via PXE or via the agent. Linux and Mac clients don't support task sequence deployments.
OSD is only supported on Windows. (source: I'm a CM 2012 admin).
Its FAA certified parts - essentially take a normal part, multiply the price times 10 or 20 = FAA certified part.
Don't believe me? Look up how much a rubber tire for landing costs.
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