Re: Single Desktop?

Dave Cousineau ( Sahuagin ) wrote:
ok thanks for your help guys. I see that this is not the way things
are intended to work. I am only just learning how this all works
since until recently we have had Win 98 workstations, and I am only
a self-taught "network administrator". I thought maybe there was a
toggle somewhere for XP that switched multi-desktops on and off or
something.

so some questions i would have are:
- for each workstation I setup, should I have to anticipate every
person that might login to it?

If the machines are a member of a domain and the users are logging in using
domain user accounts - your only 'anticipation' would be creating a default
user profile so that all users start with the same 'base' setup.

- am I able to setup email access for people through microsoft
outlook without having to go to the particular workstation, and
login as them, and set it up? I would think that there should be a
way of doing this without having to know everyones password.

Do they all connect to the same email server? Depending on your version of
Outlook, you can create a PRF file through the Microsoft Office Setup Wizard
(I believe that is what it is called - I haven't done it lately...) to have
it configure Outlook automatically for each unique logon.

- is desktop folder redirection a common way of controlling what
users have access to on the desktop? how would the root folder
shortcuts 'point' to local applications if they are on the server?

I would venture to say that unless you are going to be using roaming
profiles (a user will be using multiple machines and needs the same
look/feel) - you should just use default user profiles on the machines (or
the netlogon share) and that way they start the same way on each machine and
teach them to save their files ONLY on network shares - as their desktop/my
documents may not follow them (although you could redirect "My Documents" to
some share, etc.)

My random thoughts included above.

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