Administrative Access
The boss wants to grant administrative rights to the Upper school students on their personal computers... I wonder about the wisdom of this decision. See... It seems to me that we have eliminated a good number of problems (viruses, spyware, p2p filesharing, etc. by simply restricting administrative access priviliges. By granting these priviliges to the students again, wouldn't we just be opening that same old can of worms??
I can certainly see the utility of granting such access to the students. They would be able to install home printers and other perhipherals, along with games and other distractions. Perhaps my role as Network Administrator really should be to maintain the network, not the students computers. Perhaps I really shouldn't be so concerned with what students install on their computers. It would surely make tonight easier though. The boss called me while I was at a going away party for my friends... She wanted me to call a parent and sort out their daughter's inability to install iTunes on her computer to support the brand new IPod that she had just gotten... On a Saturday evening!!! In the summer!!! School is out!!! WTF?!?!
