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JoeC
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Thu Dec 23, 2004 6:27 am Post subject:
Domain account vs. local account |
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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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Tommy Kjellby
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Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:59 am Post subject:
RE: Domain account vs. local account |
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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:
| Quote: | 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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JoeC
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Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject:
RE: Domain account vs. local account |
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How do you handle the domain password expiring though? Should we set all
remote users passwords to never expire? I am just afraid that they will get
locked out of their machine if their domain password expires. Most of these
users will be connecting through Nortel Contivity VPN or AT&T net client and
then through our firewall. Do you usually give them admin rights or less?
We are still running NT4 but are in the process of moving to AD.
"Tommy Kjellby" wrote:
| Quote: | 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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