I used to tell people that Remote Desktop was the best (only?) good thing that Microsoft has ever done in any of its products. Not any more. System Restore has now replaced Remote Desktop as M$’s premiere bragging point as far as I’m concerned. The System Restore function goes beyond merely saving time and effort and jumps straight into the realm of literally saving your ass. Like it did mine just the other day.
I was on a client site, and in order to get the job done I hadto put my company-issued laptop on the client’s local domain. That’s a big no-no at my company for a variety of very good reasons… all of which I ignored in the interests of getting things done. So, I changed my laptop’s name and associated it with the client’s domain. I logged in. I was instantly greeted with a window informing me that Windows was uninstalling all the “managed software” from my OLD network.
“Managed Software”?
Yeah…. you know, stuff like Word and Excel and PowerPoint. And Adobe Acrobat. All gone. Microsoft Outlook? With all my emails? Gone! I don’t mean “shortcut removed from the desktop” gone, I mean Entire Application UNINSTALLED GONE!
The Problem:
The client didn’t have licenses for my installed application, so when I joined their domain, the domain controller unpimped my laptop.
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