Re: Dual Boot Laptops
From: Steve Riley [MSFT] (steriley_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 01/05/05
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:34:29 -0800
You might have a usability issue here and a certain amount of dissatisfaction.
Presumably, people will want to read corporate email and work on documents
when they're home -- but they won't be able to if the corporate partition
is inaccessible.
If your corporate image is already locked down, and by that I mean you're:
* not running as local admin
* have installed and enabled a host firewall
* are using continually-updated virus and spyware scanners
* perhaps even considering software restriction policies
then it might not be necessary to deal with a dual-image scenario.
Steve Riley
steriley@microsoft.com
> 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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