Win7 Domain Profile

[roger85]

Hi Guys,

I'm just about to setup aroung 150 new HP desktops for a Windows 2003 domain, the pc's will be the first Windows 7 computers on the domain and we are going to use Acronis Snap Deploy to make our work less.

The existing 120 old Windows XP Desktop will be given to a charity.

The new Pc's are HP Elite 8000 Ultra Small units with Windows 7 32bit and 4gb Ram. Applications are simple, just Office 2010, outlook will work with ythe local Exchange 2003 Server.

What i'd like to know is does anyone have any tip and tricks for windows 7 deployments, i asking for real life experiance's, i have a small list please help and add to my list :

Remote software for internal Remote Admin : TightVNC, is this goog free choice?
Desktop Tag software : ??
Local rights : Remove local admin and give power users ?
How to create default desktop icons ?
turn write caching off ?
remove tablet services on win 7 ?
how to imporve perf on win7?
we dont have a WSUS server, what should we set ms updates to?

Any help at all please

thanks

 

[linney]

how can we manage windows 7 workstation in to windows 2003 domain group policy

http://social.technet.microsoft.com...r/thread/0bc09f58-983d-4e6f-8033-9ef59f8b8a9d

Try your luck in one of the Server Forums too.

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=1674

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=931

See how Administrators are different in Vista and Windows 7, compared with XP. I think Power Users are an extinct species.

Built-in Administrator Account Disabled

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsvistasecurity/archive/2006/08/27/windowsvistasecurity_.aspx

Configuring Windows7 Profesional Workstation For Multiple Users

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1607988&page=1

How to customize default user profiles in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973289#appliesto

Consider updating 2003 Server to 2008 Server.

 

[Lantastic]

Try WDS. Windows deployment is amazing. Very easy to install and configure.

Also I like intelliadmin's remote admin product. It is a pay for softare, but its good.