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Oconto County orders four new Toughbooks and tightens laptop password rules
Summary
Technology Services ordered four FZ‑56 Toughbooks to replace older models, avoided tariff increases, will demo PDQ Connect for endpoint management, and distributed a form requiring supervisors to set a new minimum 20‑character password by the end of the meeting.
Technology Services Director Melissa Schwaller told the committee she ordered four new FZ‑56 Toughbook units launching this month to replace FZ‑55 devices and that the county "was able to avoid any tariff increases on the purchase." The purchase is intended to update County Board laptops and improve manageability.
Schwaller said Technology Services will demo PDQ Connect next week, a cloud‑based Windows endpoint management tool that would allow staff to manage County Board laptops remotely; the county currently uses PDQ Inventory and Deploy. Schwaller distributed a form asking county supervisors to set a new minimum 20‑character password for their laptops and to return devices to Chief Deputy County Clerk Kathy Goldschmidt if they have no additional committee meetings before the April 21 County Board Organizational Meeting.
Committee members accepted the hardware and password steps as part of routine IT management; no procurement vote was held on the Toughbook order at the April 15 meeting. Staff said demonstrations and further discussions on endpoint management software will be scheduled following the demo.
