Dual Boot Laptops

From: CanNear (CanNear_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:29:02 -0800

Our management recently made a decision to provide all laptop users with a
dual boot environment - one for our corporate XP Pro image, the other
configured as a Workgroup based system. The Workgroup based boot would be
used by users when they are connected to their home network (also configured
as a Workgroup environment). We have implemented a full locked down
environment for the Corporate image, using GPOs.

I would appreciate any feedback from the XP Security newsgroup as to what
issues we could see with this type of configuration and the potential
security issues with a dual boot configuration. For example, the users can
see both partitions and copy files between them.

Is there a tool and or utility that we could implement to hide the partition
that is not in use? I have asked IBM (our laptop vendor) for such a tool,
although they have not responded with a potential solution. We have also
considered using a separate hard disk, depending on what environment the user
wishes to access. The cost for such a solution on a ThinkPad laptop is
approximately $800 CDN, something that has been deemed unrealistic. We have
also looked at implementing VMWare Workstation as a potential solution,
although this will cost $257 CDN per laptop.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated....

Regards,

CanNear

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