<p>Thanks Chillguy for the heads up. I can't begin to imagine the frustration of having a computer thats more or less a word processor.</p>
<p>jamzmom,
the level of incompetence is almost frightening. basically, as JRH said above, they decided to blanket us under a code that has so many flaws and easy-outs in it that it's beyond irritating. for example, my printer hasn't worked since 2nd tri of plebe year, and i'm not planning on buying $50 worth of ink for it. anyways, i get these error messages about it at least 15 times a day, i tried to uninstall said printer, but guess what... i don't have administrative rights to do so...
i took it to the guys at DoIT, and all that did was make the error message have a loud sound, rather than making it go away...
GRR!!!</p>
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providing the kids with local administrator permissions (or simply using a global policy within Active Directory) to allow for the basic needs (i.e., changing time, installing software, etc) should be an acceptable practice, and I believe that an easy route was taken by just removing the local user from the local administrative group
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<p>This would be a wonderful thing to happen. The IT guys could probably free up a bunch more time to work on larger problems by giving the Mids the opportunity to fix their own simple little problems (like uninstalling/re-installing printers that go buggy).</p>
<p>according to them, it wasn't their doing, it came from higher up, thus their hands are tied. they hate it, or at least say they do, because it creates more work for them.</p>
<p>I feel for you guys. I think they are treating the computers/network like they treat mine at work at a Navy facility and it doesn't work for people who work/live at the same place. I cannot do squat on my computer at work in regards to installing/uninstalling things. I can't install programs, heck I can't even change the time on my desktop. I sometimes can use a thumbdrive and others cannot. It is a bit ridiculous, do y'all have to use passwords that contain around 10 characters with two uppercase, two lowercase, two special characters, and at least two numbers? Try coming up with a password with those restrictions ever X number of days. </p>
<p>Maybe we as alumni/parents need to figure something out as well like trying to fund an academy network or something of the sort. I am glad however to see that the incompetence of the IT department has not improved one bit. Do they still simply reformat your hardrive for every complaint?</p>
<p>well now, no one goes to DoIT if they can avoid it at all. i'm sure it's always been that way, but yeah, they don't have any clue what they're doing. most kids are switching to linux and aren't having any issues, although DoIT says that it's not possible to do it without getting caught (hence why over a third of the regiment has it and they have no clue, right?).</p>
<p>The FDCC thing is pretty frustrating. What I did was buy a new internal hard drive and swap it out. I am fortunate enough to have a copy of XP.</p>
<p>This is probably the best way to get around it and it only cost me $50</p>
<p>The restrictions at KP are actually imposed throughout the entire federal government. The rules are established by the President's Office of Management and Budget. Even the DoD and DHS service academies will have to impose the same restrictions.</p>
<p>"The restrictions at KP are actually imposed throughout the entire federal government. The rules are established by the President's Office of Management and Budget. Even the DoD and DHS service academies will have to impose the same restrictions."</p>
<p>Not so much. This is simply the lazy way out of implementing good security on a network. I'm a gov't guy - this ain't the gov't way. It's the KP way....</p>
<p>Sorry pal. Not true. Look at: OMB</a> Memoranda Read (and weep) the PDF file noted as M-07-11.</p>
<p>sorry pal - you read it....this is a memorandum for commonly accepted security configurations. Nowhere does it say that you must remove local administrator priveliges from the local user. The problem is that there are GS-5 "computer specialists" working in that world that would be better off feeding paper through a copy machine.</p>