This is being done in services to protect against malware and data leaks.
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Honestly been on the pilot for this since Nov 2023 and have had little to no impact. Allowing USB Mass Storage Devices never really made sense. For those people with actual needs there is an exception form. 99% of users have no need to use a USB Mass Storage device. You can still plug your devices in for charging (like your phone) just don't enable storage. If you need to move data off your system use OneDrive and create a Personal folder which you can share.
@1slr+1uqHUMON Not in the EU, it's illegal. They can monitor VPN activity but not to the point where they are taking screenshots or recording keystrokes ( or lack of, bwahaha)
Everything is on sharepoint ANYWAY. Managers can see everything you work on, every single click.
You can apply for an annual exception, depending on group. Just know approval goes to the VP level. Mine got approved.
It's USB Mass Storage devices, not all USB devices.
No. It’s because when people get WFRd they can’t take IP
If and when I leave this will be my main reason. The internal bureaucracy makes it impossible to just do your job.
Where can we read more about this?? I'd be curious if this would sc--w with my peripherals
Which is awesome because I need it for taking pictures of hardware to share with techs in tickets, updating BIOSes, sharing large files without the confusing OneDrive junk, etc. Filed the exception ticket and that was useless. Make it so terrible that we can't even customize our laptops the way we want to work as efficiently as we want, just forced to accept their forced settings. Now, blocking us for using USB drives... why don't they also make it where their spying software (that always hogs down the computers we use) just deletes things for us without our knowledge? There are always more ways for Dell to make things harder for us. Waiting for them to make it where you need to use your SS# to log into the network.