[FDE] PointSec

[jfvanmeter at comcast.net]

Thanks for the Heads up Allen.

Take Care --John

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From: Allen <netsecurity at sound-by-design.com>
> Hi,
> 
> Having been part of a large PointSec deployment recently, I can 
> tell you that we found two problems: something called "pixie 
> boot" which I never did get a clear definition of, and disk 
> fragmentation.
> 
> Run defrag and checkdsk on all machines before installing. They 
> wrote a little script to do it for all the machines connected to 
> the LAN. With the pixie boot and the defrag/checkdsk fixes the 
> failure rate went from 17% to 0.025%. We think the failed 
> machines had hardware/HD problems anyway so they were just 
> swapped out.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Allen
> 
> jfvanmeter at comcast.net wrote:
> > I was wondering what everyone thought of PointSec? I'm currectly getting ready 
> to test it. The test will be in a WIn2k3 SP2 R2 domain with the workstations 
> being Xp SP2. Does anyone have any gotcha's that they would like to share, or 
> problem areas that they found.
> > 
> > Thanks in advanced
> > 
> > Take Care and Have Fun --John
> > 
> > 
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