Client wants to lock down their business machines.

[YeOldeStonecat]

The professional version comes in a few licensing flavors, and it can connect to Active Directory, have different filtering combinations for different users (aka different racks in Untangle-ese) and you get the paid versions of the free apps, which offer more control and features.

Also modules such as the Bandwidth Control, WAN failover, WAN balancer, Bitdefender based antivirus as a second AV layer, direct access to support, built in automated backup, all great stuff we frequently use at our clients. The bandwidth control app is great, well worth it. And as a reseller Untangle gives you pretty good margins....that grow as your volume grows. We've been Untangle resellers since version 5.0...have a LOT of clients on it.

 

[Matthew Bradley]

I've run into this as well. Most recently, Officemate, a practice management software 2 of my optometrists use, requires UAC and local Windows firewall being disabled as a prerequisite for support. It's maddening. How about this, how about YOU program YOUR software to work in the real frickin' world?

Oh dear, I didn't even mention Officemate but you're right - this may be the worst offender of them all.

 

[Mick]

I have a new client that has asked me to lock down their W7 desktop machines to prevent users from downloading, installing or running anything that's not company approved. They also use some web based apps.

Are there any scripts, apps or links for info you folks have knowledge of other than setting user accounts to standard?

thanks.

You don't say which type of router they are using, but some have some pretty good controls you can use to restrict stuff like this - Draytek certainly does and others too, from memory. You don't need to fiddle about setting up additional profiles per machine etc either. Just one admin password/user for the router - yours - and that's all you need.