Re: At last, the big zamboni hits the playing field

[Strata Rose Chalup <strata@virtual.net>]

Hmm, that wasn't fire on gasoline, that was light shining through the
smoke.  Thanks for setting me, and possibly some others, straight on
this.

I think your post may be very useful for folks seeking to explain the
zero administration myth to their own management, since I had never
heard anyone explicitly describe the technology and specific application
thereof precisely before.  I definitely agree that the salesdroid force
has represented it differently, either out of ignorance or perhaps a
desire to reassure the customer (not coincidentally helping to make the
sale).

Goes to show me you're never too old to dig a little deeper before
mouthing off.  :-)

It sounds like raising awareness of the ZA Kit could actually greatly
assist some folks in heterogenous OS environments who need more tools to
keep users from overly customizing Windows desktops.  Sounds like a
great topic for a LISA paper.  

I know that several excellent papers have been done on the topic of
serving applications across such an environment.   I'm not remembering
anything in the last few years specifically talking about using ZAK or
homegrown tools like it for locking stuff down.  I have heard some
interesting things about tools being used to essentially do a wipe-clean
reinstall periodically on desktops at night, to help enforce logout and
storage policies in some institutions (financials usually).  But I don't
recall a "Using ZAK" kind of paper-- maybe stuff was published at
LISA-NT instead?  I've not looked at the proceedings of that.

Cheers, and thanks again,
_Strata


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