Laptop Docking station without USB-C?

philh wrote:
except if the hardware is not corporate supplied, there is ZERO way to get drivers installed. Begging doesn't work, not that I tried, but I did :)

Printers, Corporation only used HP, AND you had to link to the corporate print server. I can't even directly connect a HP printer and get it to work. They've done an awesome job!

Yeah, sometimes they go way overboard..

The company I recently left was so worried about protected health information leaking out via USB flash drives or even burned CD/DVD they required all company PCs to have McAfee drive encryption installed..

USB flash drives had to also be reformated with the drive encyption..

Sounds great on paper except until you had to transfer files that exceed 2GB in size and then the drive encryption would randomly flake out and corrupt the USB drive.. Then you lost everything on the drive..

I discovered that McAfee ultimately based their encryption scheme on DOS and was subject to 2GB file size limitations of FAT32! It tried to "span" the large files but would flake out..

Part of my job was copying premade PC images from corporate HQ servers to production image server system.. Images that were 15GB-25GB in size..

Couldn't get a IT waiver to get rid of the encryption because my PCs were not in a "secure area" and were out in the open floor..

The work around?

Connect a "pirate" non IT PC to the company IT network, the PC didn't need to join the network, only needed a IP address.. Setup a shared folder on that PC.. Then search for that PC name and connect to that shared folder..

So much for "security", a major flaw that is in every Windows PC on this Earth.. And no, it is not a secret, it is a well known flaw that can't be fixed unless you never want to connect to anything.