I have a question in regards to using the company laptop with dual OS. I would love to separate business from personal use on the company laptop. So I was wonder if it’s a good idea that I setup a dual system on the company laptop so I can boot it into the OS for my personal use after work. Thoughts and suggestions?
I sometimes travel for business and I don’t want to carry two laptops.
VM? I'd rather not mess with the bootloader of a company supplied laptop.
Ive carries 2 laptops for 14 years now. Invest in the lightest one you can afford for personal use. Do TSA pre-check to lesson the headache of air travel. As you well know, your company has full and total access to anything on their machine. Though that may not be an issue for you...
Use a VM
What type of personal use is this? If it’s basically something that can be done on an iPad, buy one. Things like booking hotels or flights are also generally considered fine at most companies.
Or any mobile phone
What are you trying to accomplish? If you’re working on a side business, you’re still using company equipment so the company still owns it. If you want to look at porn, then the separate boot will work but it may not comply with company policy. If you’re just worried about your company watching everything you do then you should go to a new company that treats employees better. Tell us what you ultimately want to accomplish and what state you’re in. Nobody can possibly give you a good answer without knowing what your ultimate goal is.
I want to open GDAX couple times a day. Or if I get a FB notification I can read it. Watch YouTube at lunch/break time. I simply don’t like to be watched and I don’t want to do anything personal on a system you would get trouble.
Go to a new company. What company seriously has a problem with employees checking Facebook or watching YouTube during lunch time? That’s terrible. Also... you have set “break time”? Definitely find a new job.
If it’s a side business, just buy a MacBook. It’s light enough that it doesn’t feel like carrying two laptops.
Anything you create using company hardware is property of the employer. Of course, that doesn’t matter if you’re just checking mail/fb, etc. Two solutions I’ve seen: - buy you own enterprise laptop with 2 SSDs. 1 for work, the other for personal use. No shared boot loader, disable the other SSD when installing system. - use company laptop, install 2nd SSD at your own cost and use it for personal use. Disable SSD when installing system. This way no boot loader is shared which makes reinstalling simple, and no company software gets pushed to personal drive, apart from BIOS/UEFI level stuff (such as Intel vPro), but I’m not sure if they even do anything with that at MS. Personally, I travel with one laptop that is both for work and personal use with 2 SSDs.
If the IP is created using company equipment it isn’t automatically property of the employer, but they do have the option of taking it.
Very close to what I think I would do. I plan to buy a external SSD and make it bootable for only my personal use.
Buy a personal machine for a couple hundred?