| even better news for admins For admins with laptop users, the firewall changes are a godsend. They allow us to define (via GPO) two configurations, so you can have one set of firewall rules when the laptop is in your office behind your perimeter firewalls, and another set of rules which is automatically used when the laptop is not connected to the corporate network. So I get the ability to easily manage the systems when they're in the office without sacrificing security when the user connects to the cable modem at home. Automatically. Cool.
Oh, and to the user who wondered why not make web pages totally cross-browser friendly..it's really not "a little extra work" but a serious task that takes great patience. Why? Because Internet Explorer does not render pages in accordance with the w3c recommendations. It is so infuriating that M$ will not fix things like their implementation of the box model, which leaves a web designer with three options:
1. make a page that looks right in IE, but a little off in most other browser
2. make a page that complies with w3c recs and looks good in most browsers but that isn't quite right in IE
3. spend a lot of time fiddling, testing, tweaking, testing, finessing, testing in order to work around IE's infuriating shortcomings (this is the option I choose, but it's only easy when the page design is very simple!) |
