Hay

I'm having problems displaying more than say 500
characters in the logon message text box, does any one
know if there is a limit or how to max it?

Windows 2000 has a limit of 512 Characters when using the Group Policy
Editor
to create the LegalTextNotice / Logon Message.

Windows XP supports 1024 through the Group Policy Editor. XP was changed
to use a Multivalue String and supports carriage returns - unfortunately, it
is not
backward compatible, so you will run into display issues if you try to use a
setting
created with XP on a W2K machine.

We are working towards unifying the OSes with regard to this value,
hopefully in
an upcoming W2K service pack.

As a work around, the registry key itself supports a much larger amount of
characters.
You could deploy a larger Logon Message by deploying a registry change
through a computer
startup script, or, I have seen customers successfully import a modified
INF, with a larger
amount of text, into the security policy. Just test in your lab, and don't
edit it after the fact through the GUI.

--
Rusty Gray
Microsoft Corporation

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"George P" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hay
>
> I'm having problems displaying more than say 500
> characters in the logon message text box, does any one
> know if there is a limit or how to max it?
>