AdminPak on XP?

[grshopper]

I have not tried it yet for myself, but have been told by our Hardware/Network manager that the AdminPak for Windows 2000 will not load on XP. Has any one tried this, or seen a newer adminpak for XP?

The reason I ask is we have a Windows 2000 domain that I must be able to administer user accounts on, but I also have to support some home users with their VPN connections to work, and more and more of them are getting Windows XP and having no working knowledge of the product it gets difficult some times. I would really like to be able to run Windows XP on my laptop and still be able to access Active Directory from the laptop. I have thought of Terminal services, but getting the network admin to create the profile for us is difficult.

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[mickyjune26]

http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q304718

In about the middle of the page, in the bullets, they explicity say that it can't be installed.
Sorry, bud,
-Micky

 

[jmanley]

You can download the AdminPak for WindowsXP (lets you administer Win2k domains as well) from the MS download site. It is also included with the .NET server beta CDs, if they're available to you. Here's a direct link to the one at Microsoft's web site...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=34032&area=search&ordinal=1

Good luck..

-John

 

[mickyjune26]

cool, my support post must be outdated. Its too bad they don't have a way to eradicate invalid entries.
Thanks for the tip, will this allow you to administer any 2k server? or just .net servers?
Is .net an entirely seperate OS or just an add-on to 2k server?

 

[jmanley]

.NET and *any* w2k server. .NET is a new O/S, basically the server version of XP.