Re: Windows XP Welcome Screen and NT Server 4.0 Security


"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK. Thanks for the explanation. Without knowing a lot more about your
whole user situation and security needs you and the others that make the
final decision will need to decide what is most important -
security/centralized management or user convenience. In Windows XP in a
domain the computer by default will display the last logged on user name
if that would be a help. Also it can help if the user logon name is
something really easy to remember such as their first name and first two
or three letters of their last name or the month/year of their birth etc
as in joan03. Hopefully you can make your case as unless the number of
users is really small the benefits of a domain can be considerable though
using NT4.0 - yikes! NT4.0 will greatly diminish the benefits of XP Pro
computers in a domain such as using Group Policy. There are numerous books
on XP Pro and rather than make a recommendation I suggest that you browse
them at your local bookstore to see what you like as some assume you know
nothing and others assume a fairly large expertise. Also be sure to check
out the FREE [they will like that] Shared Computer Toolkit from Microsoft
for XP SP2 if you need to stay in a workgroup as it can do a LOT to
lockdown users. Good luck. --- Steve



Also, if cost is the issue that is keeping the centre from moving away from
NT4, this page may be of use:
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/ican/softwaredonations.mspx



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