Practicum 2: Day 8

Today was very hectic and was even stressful to a point. We had even more technicians trying to set up the scanner on the top floor. Because of the layout of the display, the program that Systems Auditing uses to manage print jobs cannot fit the screen, and thus can not lock the system down. All of the photocopying machines that have this software have a special computer attached, with a very small keyboard and touchscreen display to operate it. The computers run off Windows XP, and technically it functions like any other computer, but the System's Auditing software locks it down, making the machine run like a kind of embedded terminal. Since this wasn't possible on this computer, the IT Manager and the Systems Auditing technician tried to achieve a compromise so that it operated in some way without posing a huge security risk.