When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved

Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by oxfordmale on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:14PM (#20168807)

Try running Visual Studio without admin rights and you will weep. Regarding other rights, I tried to onboard a new Dev without admin rights, however, after the 25th IT ticket (that take days to get done), I gave up.

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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by voltagex_ on Thursday June 13, 2019 @12:21AM (#20171780)

I run Visual Studio without admin rights every day. But, if you're doing driver development, working with older IIS, certain parts of the registry or developing installers then yeah you're going to have a bad time.

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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by maxxxxx on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:58PM (#20169251)

Or try LabView. It’s not doable.

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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by user5994461 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:54PM (#20169220)

Visual Studio does not require admin rights to run at all. It stopped needing that almost ten years ago.

The only exceptions are some parts of the C++ debugger and the driver development kit.

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Re:When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved by robgough on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:46PM (#20170513)

or anything to do with Service Fabric.

I'm not sure if your "almost ten years ago" is meant to be hyperbolic, or genuine... I can't even remember why, but I know the project I was on 6 years ago definitely needed visual studio to have admin access, and it was all standard C# app stuff (maybe WPF?)

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