RE: How to manage profiles???

Outlook is always a problem for roaming access, becuase it is not a proper
network-aware program, and stores its data an dsettings in disparate
locations.

Thereare two ways you can make Outlook work for roaming users, and those are
roaming profiles and profgen/newprof scripts. Roaming profiles would probably
bog-down a system like yours. Scripting the Outlook settings is complex but
does work.

Other options are a proper network-aware email client, or webmail.

As a side note, we have implemented the 42 day password rule as per NYS
laws.

I have always thought that this dictate results from 'soapboxing' rather
than rational thought. It certainly causes a number of security issues,
namely that it forces users to have simple passwords or else to write them
down, and it means that engineers doing maintenance have to forcibly reset
those passwords. I wonder if anyone has given thought to the issue that
forcibly-reset passwords are a major security risk, since they almost always
reset to a known value? Probably not.

As for shares, you may be able to do something with a more sophisticated
language like AutoIt or KixStart. I would suggest that this is the route to
take.

"bondo" wrote:

What I am faced with is a network with a central location with 11 satelite
locations. I hope to explain this the best way I can.
We run a script when a user logs on that maps their "home" drive. Simple, no
problem. Most, 95% use only one machine. But that is at our central location.
Outlook becomes an issue when they try to use another computer. I can deal
with that. I also thru our script can map the shared drives by department and
again simple. Like I said, 95% of our employess do not change departments.
This is manageable.
Here is my problem. The people working at the other 11 satelite locations
need access to the shared drives for that particular location. But they are
constantly changing.
For example, a manager of 4 of those satelites needs access to all 4 of them
no matter what satelite she logs on to. Without my script looking like the
government bailout, how do I do this? How do I script multiple drives per
person?
And then how do I manage those shared drives per person down to the satelite
itself. How do I script that? It has become UNmanageable.
I need help.

As a side note, we have implemented the 42 day password rule as per NYS
laws. Now, as a network admin, how in the world am I to administer my
network? If I need to do work on someones machine and make sure that it works
with them logged on, I have to change the password.

Thanks in advance
.

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