Sorry, I can't help you with this one. We use Win95 clients exclusively. Don't you get the feeling Microsoft is practicing guerrilla war against schools. They hype us like crazy to buy the latest & greatest version of their software & each version seems more antagonistic to a school environment. Furthermore, they offer us no tools to really get the job done. The only really great tool they offered us was "NT Communication Tools for Schools". It was great & free but they pulled it after only a few months of availability. Their so-called advice on "locking down the desktop in schools" on Windows NT is worse than a joke. It supplies no real details & I believe it encourages novice administrators to take an unfeasible development path. We use several software tools that are non Microsoft & I find these manufacturers usually bend over backwards to help us. (Especially once we tell them we are a school.) When we try to elicit help from Microsoft they ignore us. (or tell us to pay more money for support) We get regular sales presentations from Microsoft representatives exhorting to buy their latest software but there is no support. Sorry for the rant but we spent almost a year studying & testing policies to discover that Microsoft's White paper on "Policies & Profiles" intentionally under emphasized several constraints that applied to our environment. For public institutions Microsoft's security paradigm has serious limitations. Thank God for Kixtart & the NT resource kit. We would be lost without them.
[This message has been edited by JackLothian (edited 25 April 2000).]
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