Posts by BizDev

Microsoft adds Azure AD Join to Windows 365 Cloud PC

Re: I'm confused.

Benefit to cloudy DAAS - from the customer's point of view this permits off site or out of office working, but allows us to maintain controls on the data/keep it on-site - for example one of the effects of the pandemic for my organisation was the sudden requirement to hook up thousands of laptops etc that belonged to end users to the network in order for them to be able to run desktop software that was previously safely installed in the office.

To get round the issues this presented, a number of users suddenly had a crash course in using remote desktops as there was no way we could install to end user owned machines and maintain compliance (also it would have taken ages!)

Of course - that was DAAS on _our_ infrastructure - as you say, moving that use case to somebody else's data centre brings its own compliance and security issues...

User secures floppies to a filing cabinet with a magnet, but at least they backed up daily... right?

Re: Then there is the "send me a copy"

This type of thing was still happening when I did support 10 years ago - users would print out emails and then scan the printout into the CRM rather than using the “save to CRM” button on their email.

We just accepted this. What did confuse us though was when we discovered that the same office staff were emailing their letters to the department secretary so that she could type them up for them... in Word...

The cute things they say

Lost Files

A few years ago we had a user who's job largely revolved around two Word documents. From time to time she'd ring to tell us that they'd been "lost".

Her problem was that she "stored" them on the list of the last 4 files opened on the File menu in Word.... So from time to time she'd open enough email attachments from clients to "lose" her files from the list.

One of us would then pop round to her desk and open the files to put them back in the list... We never did succeed in explaining the intricacies of the file system to her...