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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2004
James G Cavalaris, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jason T Cobb, Sammamish, WA (US);
Santosh S Jodh, Sammamish, WA (US);
James G Cavalaris, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jason T Cobb, Sammamish, WA (US);
Santosh S Jodh, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for entity management is provided. In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a system administrator is given control over device(s) that can be installed on a computer system(s), and/or how the installation can be performed. Thus, a system administrator can specify device installation policy that prevents the computer system from automatically installing device(s) (e.g., even when an appropriate driver is available to be installed). For example, this policy can be applied to substantially all new devices and/or only a subset of devices. Optionally, policy can also control how device(s) that are already installed will be made available to the computer system.