@scottalanmiller said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

@irj said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

@obsolesce said in Laptops versus desktops and roaming users:

I've not worked in hospitals but can image them with different needs and device purposes.

I worked for an 18k employee hospital system. All the support staff (IT, administration, etc) had laptops. The hospitals themselves used desktops as shared stations, but even administrators (or anyone with an office who didn't use shared computer) at hospital locations used laptops.

I work with doctors and we see desktops over laptops. Lots of laptops, to be sure. But desktops remain common that we see. Even in current green field deployments.

Oh - for the doctors themselves - absolutely, in general it seems they don't want to carry anything around with them, so that leaves desktops as the primary interface for them.

In hospitals in-patient care I generally still desktops also generally with swipe care access, at least on in room computers.

@gjacobse said:

@travisdh1

No - User accounts are 'left' so that is connection to the AD / DC is lost, then the user can still log on.

That's not totally true, all profiles files are left, that doesn't mean you can still login to it necessarily. There's no process for AD to talk to the local computer to tell it the user was removed. It is just a directory service, The local computer has to request to login to the account. There is no method AD to tell computers anything changed without them requesting.

@scottalanmiller said:

@gjacobse said:

@scottalanmiller
Actually - yes. Yes it was.

That alone probably explains most of the issues. They do so many dumb things...

FTFY