Re: Single Desktop?

Dave Cousineau ( Sahuagin )
<DaveCousineauSahuagin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Ah. Nope. You should probably pick up a couple of books and do some reading
before you proceed, if you're responsible for the network overall. Or get a
good consultant in to help you set everything up & show you how to do the
basic admin. It's not rocket science, but there's a lot that can go wrong.

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

Not necessarily; you can use roaming profiles & folder redirection (for My
Documents, Desktop, Application Data) so that each user gets their settings
& files no matter where they log in. This requires that your workstations
run the same OS and software (keep them as identical as possible).

- 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?

See above re profiles. But if you're not using Exchange, be very careful.
Outlook PST files must live on the local hard drive - not on the server.
They're difficult to back up, and can't be centrally managed. They are not
really suitable for a domain environment. Look into Exchange if you haven't
done so...you could get it hosted elsehwere if you don't want to manage it
in house.

I would think that there should be a way of
doing this without having to know everyones password.

You need to know their passwords only once, when you log in for the first
time to customize their profiles.

- is desktop folder redirection a common way of controlling what
users have access to on the desktop?

Well - in a manner of speaking, yes.

how would the root folder
shortcuts 'point' to local applications if they are on the server?

Applications don't generally live on the server. The shortcuts will point to
the local path of the hard drive. But I do try to discourage people from
cluttering up their desktops - the Start menu is the best place to find
their programs.


many thanks

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

Dave Cousineau ( Sahuagin )
<DaveCousineauSahuagin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi I have a Windows 2000 Server domain with Windows XP Professional
SP2 computers (and others) accessing it. Is there a way to disable
the multi-desktop feature of Windows XP? I would like if no matter
which credentials were used to login to the domain, the user was
always brought to the same desktop. Especially since it seems I
have to setup email accounts for every different possible login. I
just want one set of email accounts setup that any login can
access, as long as they have the file permission for the mailbox
file. Thanks.

Note that my email is OLD: new address: nerevar at shaw dot ca

This isn't how AD & multiuser operating systems work. You'd have to
create a single mandatory profile which was preconfigured to contain
mail profiles for *all* possible users.

What's the goal? I frankly can't see the point of this. You can set
up standard desktops via group policy, you can do all sorts of things
centrally.



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