Best practice to deal with computer or departed employee

Dear All,
I would like to inquire about the best practice to deal with computer and computer account of a departed employee. should be disabled, reset, deleted, or just kept as it is until it is needed by another user?
Regards
hiam
Hiam

Ultimately your needs for their identities and equipment after they leave are what dictate how you should design this policy.
First off, I recommend disabling the account immediatly following the employee's departure. This prevents the user from using their credentials to log on again. Personally I have a "Disabled Users" OU in Active Directory. When I disable accounts
I move them here for easy future retrieval.
It is possible the user may return, or if they have access to certain systems you may need the account again. I would keep the accounts for a specific amount of time (e.g. 6 months, but this depends on your needs) and then delete them after this period of
time.
If the employee knows the passwords to any shared accounts (not a good idea though many organizations have these) or has accounts in other systems that do not use Active Directory authentication, immediately change the passwords to these accounts again following
the employee's departure.
If the employee had administrative access to their computer (not a good idea, though is the reality in most cases) you should disable the computer account and remove it from the network. This will prevent the employee from remotely accessing the machine
until you are able to rebuild or inspect it for unapproved changes.
Ask the user's manager, team members, and subordinates if there are any files that the employee would have stored on their computer. Back these up as necessary.
Most likely you will reuse the computer for another employee. For best results you should use an image so you can re-image their machine and not have to worry whether they had installed any unwanted software (backdoors, viruses, illegal software, etc).
Hope this helps.
Jason Warren
@jaspnwarren
jasonwarren.ca
habaneroconsulting.com/Insights

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First I listen to all the the sound bytes and digitize only the ones that I think I will need. I will take in much more than I use, but I like to transcribe bytes from the non-linear timeline. It's easier for me.
I had so many interviews in the last doc that I gave each interviewee a bin. You must decide how you want to organize the sound bytes. Do you want a bin for each interviewee or do you want to do it by subject. That will depend on you documentary and subject matter.
I then have b-roll bins. Sometime I base them on location and sometimes I base them on subject matter. This last time I based them on location because I would have a good idea of what was in each bin by remembering where and when it was shot.
Perhaps, you weren't at the shoot and do not have this advantage. It's crucial that you organize you b-roll bins in a way that makes sense to you.
I then have music bins and bins for my voice over.
Many folks recommend that you work in small sequences and nest. This is a good idea for long form stuff. That way you don't get lost in the timeline.
I also make a "used" bin. Once I've used a shot I pull it out of the bin and put it "away" That keeps me from repeatedly looking at footage that I've already used.
The previous posts are right. If you've digitized 45 hours of footage you've put in too much. It's time to start deleting some media. Remember that when you hit the edit suite, you should be one the downhill slide. You should have a script and a clear idea of where you're going.
I don't have enough fingers to count the number of times that I've had producers walk into my edit suite with a bunch of raw tape and tell me that that "want to make something cool." They generally have no idea where they're going and end up wondering why the process is so hard.
Refine your story and base your clip selections on that story.
Good luck
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