I am looking for some help and guidance in our small office. I have been given 10 new XP Pro Dell machines to replace older Win98 systems. I have little or no experieince with Windows Xp and Windows 2000. I am pretty good with NT 4.0 (our PDC) and Win 98 clients. We also run Exchange 5.5 on our Nt 4.0 server with Outlook 2000 as the clients. I now have to replace each users machine with these new Win XP Pro machines and haven't the foggiest idea where to begin. I have hooked one up and played around with it but it is quite overwhelming. I am looking for any tips, tricks suggestions or places I can go to that have some simple user guides in hooking these clients up.
Things I am trying to achieve in a perfect world:
1. Login to domain, run my login script from these XP machines to do some basic drive mappings (have got this done now)
2. Login as any user on any PC and get the same desktop, email settings etc (roaming profiles?) if it is not to hard to setup. Don't know if my NT 4.0 PDC and BDC will support this with XP.
3. Control user access by groups (accounting, power user and regular users) to certain shares on the servers
4. Keep the same look and feel on the PCs without having to configure everything on the PCs individually
5. I am having a devil of a time with logging in as an administrator on a PC, setting up all the software the way we want it, cutomizing the desktop as we like it and then when I log on as the regular PC user, its all set back to default. It's like I have these PCs to manage with users and then the domain also.
I have gone thru a lot of the material on the MS XP sites and it is helping, just looking for any sites anyone might recomend. I do appreciate it.
🙂
Things I am trying to achieve in a perfect world:
1. Login to domain, run my login script from these XP machines to do some basic drive mappings (have got this done now)
2. Login as any user on any PC and get the same desktop, email settings etc (roaming profiles?) if it is not to hard to setup. Don't know if my NT 4.0 PDC and BDC will support this with XP.
3. Control user access by groups (accounting, power user and regular users) to certain shares on the servers
4. Keep the same look and feel on the PCs without having to configure everything on the PCs individually
5. I am having a devil of a time with logging in as an administrator on a PC, setting up all the software the way we want it, cutomizing the desktop as we like it and then when I log on as the regular PC user, its all set back to default. It's like I have these PCs to manage with users and then the domain also.
I have gone thru a lot of the material on the MS XP sites and it is helping, just looking for any sites anyone might recomend. I do appreciate it.
🙂
