By Casper Manes
No matter how good a sysadmin you are, there will always be
users that will install something bad and break their computers.
Here are a few tricks you can use to stop them.
You try really hard to do a good sysadmin job. You convinced
your boss to purchase modern hardware. You got the entire company
upgraded to a current release of Windows. You even manage to keep
all your machines fully patched every month. And yet, somehow, you
still find yourself reimaging machines every month, all because
someone installs something that manages to fubar their
machine, and the only way to get them back up and running is the
old format/reinstall approach.
That takes hours to complete, leaves them (and you) unproductive
until it's done, and takes away time from more important work.
There's got to be a better way! Actually, there is; I have used
many of them with great success at various companies, and in this
post, I'll present you three ways you can keep your
