kayut Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 On my company laptop, which is a MacBook Pro I have administration right and can install any software that I want. The only software that is disallowed and cannot be installed is Skype. I asked the IT support to allow me to install Skype on my laptop but couldn't convinced them. Now I'm looking for a workaround to install Skype on my MacBook. One way I can think of is installing a Virtual machine on my laptop and trying to install Skype on that Virtual machine. But I know that a Virtual machine takes too much of my laptops's RAM and this might slow down my machine. Is there any other way to bypass the security mechanism on my laptop and install Skype on it? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rkiver Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 It's not yours. Don't bypass company security unless you want to get fired. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 On 5/22/2021 at 12:34 PM, kayut said: On my company laptop, which is a MacBook Pro I have administration right and can install any software that I want. The only software that is disallowed and cannot be installed is Skype. I asked the IT support to allow me to install Skype on my laptop but couldn't convinced them. Now I'm looking for a workaround to install Skype on my MacBook. One way I can think of is installing a Virtual machine on my laptop and trying to install Skype on that Virtual machine. But I know that a Virtual machine takes too much of my laptops's RAM and this might slow down my machine. Is there any other way to bypass the security mechanism on my laptop and install Skype on it? Thanks I reckon they have a reason for the denial; ask them for it and should they persist stick to the rules of your company As Rkiver said; its not yours 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n37r0 Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Just use skype for web. web.skype.com, on chrome. You can use skype as normal. It works well actually. Another way is to potentially emulate Skype's windows binary (.exe) using Wine... Wine is a big software, so it's probably on your approved list of software. Let me know if either of these two solutions work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jtyle6 Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Yeah Na. Smells fishery. Plus it's not your device / network. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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