Re: Laptop Administration

Steve,

The problem is, left unchecked, a number of the laptop users do not return
to the network for one month or more. I work at a school system and the
teachers work on PP and other teaching tools at home, show the PP
presentation to their class, but never connect the laptop to the network.
There have been a couple of cases where the virus definitions were not
updated and the windows updates were not done, and a virus was allowed to
corrupt the laptop and then hop onto the network when the user connected. If
there was a policy that I could create that would force the computer to be
hooked back into the domain at least once a week, it would help reduce the
risk to the laptops.

Thanks,

Chris

"Steve Riley [MSFT]" wrote:

Hm, this happens sort of automatically in most cases. A user returns from a
business trip, goes to the office, plugs into the network there, and
receives group policy, SMS, and NAP updates.

Do some of your laptop users never return to the office?

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Steve Riley
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"Chris Sprague" <Chris Sprague@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I was wondering if there was a way to force laptop users to check into the
domain to allow updates to their computers. The best way would be if i
can
disallow login with a message that reports the computer most be returned
to
the domain. If anyone has written a script or knows of an embedded
windows
function that allows this, it would be helpful. Thank you.

.

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