BitLocker is quickly becoming standard in Kraft Kennedy’s Windows 7 deployments for clients with Windows 7 Enterprise licenses. BitLocker is easy to configure and enable automatically during MDT or SCCM workstation builds. Enabling BitLocker automatically via 3rd party tools is also rather simple. Combined with ease of deployment, BitLocker’s ability to backup encryption recovery keys in Active Directory make it a very attractive option for clients looking to implement manageable desktop and laptop encryption.
Microsoft provides ample documentation describing the process for enabling Bitlocker in the enterprise. There are only a half a dozen or so steps required to prepare then Active Directory environment and then a few minor modifications to the SCCM or MDT task sequence to enable BitLocker during builds. In the field I have found there is one area where the BitLocker documentation is lacking and thought I would share this tip.
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Could this be the solution to many of our SCCM deployment woes?
User Affinity is shaping up to be one of the most promising new features in SCCM 2012. What is User Affinity? This new feature creates a “link” called an “Affinity” between a user and their primary device(s). Yes you read that correctly, users can have more than one primary device. With this “Affinity” in place, software can be assigned to the user and it will only be installed on the devices in the user’s “Affinity” list. Sounds simple right, well it has taken Microsoft a while to get this into their product. Now that it is here, SCCM administrators can once again broach the topic of user assigned software instead of computer based assignments. All this without the worry of software ending up in places where it shouldn’t and the associated licensing headache.
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I have been using the Nexus One with Android 2.1 for a month and a half in order to get a good insight into the real workings on the Android operating system. To sum up my experience the Nexus One phone is a great piece of hardware but the Android OS still has a long way to go in order to be as functional as a Blackberry or an iPhone.
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