I like this. Must try it.

I can see that if it was one of the owners computers. Heaven knows what they keep on there. In this case though, it was a sales computer going to a new (non-sales) employee.

In this instance, it is not an owner's computer. They took a sales machine with client data and just gave it to a new hire. No log in changes, no information scouring, etc. When we backup the owners machines, it is done to external drive and they are given the drive. However, we don't get the opportunity to those backups very much.

Unfortunately no such backup schedule exists. I'm planning on setting up automated backups when the computers attach to the network. Now I just need to get them to pay for the drive space.

The sad thing is, they were involved. After the first data loss there was a big meeting (with the consumption of many caffeinated beverages) to go over how to prevent it from happening again. A series of policies they crafted were put into place. Just back at square one I guess.

When a person leaves the company, we set a policy to back up all data from their laptop before it is given to a new employee. We had to do this due to a laptop being 'recycled' in this manner and losing a lot of data. We don't want profiles or other data left on that machine so we format it and start with a clean install for security reasons (nothing like finding accounting data on the 'new' salespersons computer.