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kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 month agoMy former employer had a bunch of windows servers providing remote desktops for us to access some proprietary (and often legacy) mission critical software.
Part of the security policy was that any machines in the possession of end users were assumed to be untrustworthy, so they kept the applications locked down on the servers.
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I kinda wish my employer would do something like this for our current applications. Right before I started working there they switched from giving engineers desktops to laptops (work station laptops but still). There are some advantages to having a laptop like being able to work from home or use it in a meeting, but I would much prefer the extra power from a desktop. In mind the best of both worlds would be to have a relatively cheap laptop that basically acts as a thin client so that I can RDP into a dedicated server or workstation for my engineering applications. But what do I know ¯_(ツ)_/¯
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It was a pain in the ass more often than not. If the application server was having trouble the entire department was at a standstill.
And getting config files, licence files, log files and the like in and out of the system was a long convoluted process.
We often joked that we were so secure that our hands were tied.