RE: Domain account vs. local account

From: Tommy Kjellby (TommyKjellby_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:59:06 -0800

Hi.
Been in your situation. We ended up with domain accounts, registered the
laptops in a own OU with strickt rights, so that they could store/get data on
a central server when they need, and comunicate with the network.
Benefits of domain accounts depends on how your network is. VPN, dial-in,
Remote Desktop, etc. We found it best to have an domain account for them,
since we use much MS technology, and it easest the work with rights etc when
laptop users have domain account.

"JoeC" wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what the "best practice" is for deploying Windows XP
> on laptops to users that are frequently out of the office. These users
> will only need to use domain resources once or twice per year. Is
> there any benefit to setting them us with a domain account? We are talking
> about 500 plus users.
>
>
>

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