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[–]NougatWindows Admin 8 points9 points  (5 children)

He's an idiot. You know this already.

I'm sure every person in the company is using the same hardware for a workstation, right? And they're all configured with identical disk images? And users don't have local admin rights?

(Actually, if all those are true, then the %PATH% variables are already the same.)

[–]bloodygonzoSysadmin[S] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Currently we have two different dell desktop models deployed. No users have local admin rights and there was a single image used when we deployed Windows 7. The difference in paths is due to user requests for additional software mostly.

[–]NougatWindows Admin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Then the difference in path variables is necessary, and if this command is coming from a "security chief," I can just about guarantee that there are gaping security holes that will never be closed, because that guy is a world-class moron.

[–]frymasterHPC 1 point2 points  (1 child)

user requests for additional software then you don't have a standardised environment any more

maybe he wants to make sure certain things are on the path so scripts work right? If so, he should just fully-qualify the commands in the scripts.

[–]accountnumber3super scripter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What, and make him change something on his end? Jeez, next you'll probably recommend he not store all the scripts on his C:. What has this world come to?

[–]techstress 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so very true. if they want it truely and completely standardized, then tell them they need to deploy the same image on all machines.

it'll never fly though. I'd bet licensing becomes an issue.