I got an email from my HM’s admin. He mentioned I’d get a SAW laptop, Monitors, Peripherals and a laptop Isn’t SAW really a laptop? Why would I get two laptops? TC @MS : 170k, 1.2 YOE
SAW is a secure access workstation, you can use it to access production environments, and allows a very limited access to internet and other things that might expose production environments to risky activities.
Wow! Just the amount of security that goes into all of this 🤦😅🫣
SAWs are so painful to use that you usually get a second non-SAW machine to do dev work.
Doesn’t that defeats the purpose of SAW?
No, you only need the SAW to access prod which I hope you aren't doing for day to day dev work.
Saw will be your favorite machine
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I’m pretty sure it comes with a hidden clause…. SARCASM INTENDED
Saw exclusively accesses prod systems, which you use for mitigating production issues. Due to it’s VPN it has no outgoing internet connection/resolut to non-MSFT/non-Production websites. Therefore to access non-MSFT/non-Prod websites, you can vm into your dev machine (allocated to you when you start) to do so, or you can use your Surface Laptop (which has a better work/dev experience - imo nicer keyboard and screen).
Most people end up using the SAW exclusively as they’re always mitigating production issues + the vm is the gateway to the rest of the world for other stuff, but as I said above, the surface laptop just “feels” better, and I sometimes use the laptop for corp/dev work (surface also has a way for us to rdp into our dev machine)z
Thanks, that explains a lot of things. I have a surface already and I do like the look and feel
You will figure out why you need a second laptop within an hour of working on the saw
The flipped ctrl button drives me crazy 🤬
Search on yammer for info how to make caps lock act as ctrl. There is reg key to enable this. This is the first thing I do on any device I use.
Do me a favor, get a macbook instead
Bruh how, did you request one or something
Team dependent i guess, my team can choose whatever
This post is giving me PTSD. I mostly look back fondly on my time at Microsoft but completely forgot the misery of using a SAW. lukcily I didn't use it much.
Joined apple recently and it made me realize how trash msft hw was. They gave me a cheap dell laptop and was told couldn't exchange for 2 years.
😂 Exactly my dell laptop is messed up with bluesl screen. Now i cant even work.
Same. Got a POS 13" Dell that is unusable as a non-docked machine. About ready to pony up and domain join my own rig.
Is this for Eng? For me (Eng), HM admin has offered a top end M1 Mac, 4k Monitors, company phone. Did I draw the blue straw?
Really?! Mac and a phone?! What org?!
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