NW5.1 and Win2K

[Visitor]

We're finally upgrading the desktop OS's to 2K and I was wondering how most people set up their policies and user accounts. Originally, we thought by using DLUs we could track what user made changes or installed software. Now I'm thinking that having a "generic" user for the local user and have the ZEN policies applied to that. Any thoughts, ideas, or experience with upgrading Win2K to the NW5.1/ZFD3.2 environment?

Thanks.

 

[DrGreen26]

I would lean toward using ZEN to contol everything. Your life would be soo much easier inthe long run and having to deal with only one place for administration purposes would be beneficial.

Mark

Mark C. Greenwood, CNE
m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com

With more than 10 years experience to share.

 

[terry712]

generic user is suicide

use the dlu and let zen do the lot - the policies work superb as do the nal's for distribution

generic user will really restrict and will probably render you security policy to the realms of useless

 

[TheLad]

I would agree. Dynamic Local User is definately the way. You can setup DLU to be volatile as well - this basically means that when the user logs in, DLU creates a local user account, and when the user logs out, DLU deletes the users local account.

You can apply policies at the container level so anyone who logs into a user object under that container picks up a policy.

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