Peter Pawlak Manage Quotations

Microsoft's whole company's practice had been based on doing a great job on Windows and leaving integration with other operating systems to the third-party partners. Now they are trying not to make decisions that make it harder to manage other platforms.

For any company that has a few IT people and more than 50 or 100 computers, it isn't that overwhelming to install and manage SMS. And if you're real small, you're probably just going to install automatic updates.

It was one of the limitations of Group Policy, that it couldn't be used across the board. You used to have to bring in other interfaces, some things you would have to write a script. Or you used whatever tool the hardware or software vendor provided to manage it, and each one used a different technique.