SSD is a managed staff desktop environment that:
- is based on Microsoft Windows
- has pre-installed software that enables:
- email
- web browsing
- standard office applications
- safeguards user volatile data
- contains patch, anti-virus and update management
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is a platform that users can extend by installing their own task-specific applications
Help, Murder, Polis! |
| Surely this bullet point means that users have some control over their workstation and don't have to use it
just as those arrogant dictators in the Computing Service say? |
| If that is right, then this environment could be used by academics, anyone if fact, not just administrators.
That's not what I've heard SSD is about.
Surely shome mishtake? |
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No mistake: this is the whole idea |
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Separate the myth from the reality at the Distributed IT Support Staff meeting |
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13:00 - 14:00, Wednesday 9 June 2004 |
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Seminar Room 1, Wolfson Medical Building |
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