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Best practice for shared laptops used for presentations

Stu_G

Hi,

We have several laptops we loan out to users for presentational purposes, powerpoint mostly. Typically the laptops are loaned out for a day or so.

We have 100 users who potentially could loan out any of these laptops

It is obviously not feasible to add all users to all laptops..... and the laptops must be encrypted and POA invoked.

Given this scenario what would be best practice in terms of adding users to the laptop, given a days notice?

I really want to lessen the burden on the helpdesk too if possible.

Thanks

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    If your laptops are managed by the Safeguard Management Center, and each one of the users has logged onto at least one laptop managed by Safeguard you could administer them in the Safeguard Managment center?

    Add each one of the users to a new Group in Users and Computers, then click each of the laptops and click on the "Users" tab. Drag the group you created from the "Availible users" window on the right of the screen to the list of users on the left of the screen.

    All of the users in that group will then be added as users of that laptop.

    There are a couple of limitations - firstly at least one person will need to log onto the laptop and connect to the internet to allow Sophos to synchronise the accounts onto it. Secondly dragging the group only adds the contents of the group to the users tab, rather than the group itself. So you cant add or remove users to that group later and have the laptop automaticly update. If you need to add or remove users you will need to do it manually from each laptop.

    :50020
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    If your laptops are managed by the Safeguard Management Center, and each one of the users has logged onto at least one laptop managed by Safeguard you could administer them in the Safeguard Managment center?

    Add each one of the users to a new Group in Users and Computers, then click each of the laptops and click on the "Users" tab. Drag the group you created from the "Availible users" window on the right of the screen to the list of users on the left of the screen.

    All of the users in that group will then be added as users of that laptop.

    There are a couple of limitations - firstly at least one person will need to log onto the laptop and connect to the internet to allow Sophos to synchronise the accounts onto it. Secondly dragging the group only adds the contents of the group to the users tab, rather than the group itself. So you cant add or remove users to that group later and have the laptop automaticly update. If you need to add or remove users you will need to do it manually from each laptop.

    :50020
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