Can you use Group Policy to enable remote administration of WinXP workstations?

[SWalters]

Sorry for the long subject but I know how it's hard to get a good
description when so many posts come into a newsgroup.

What I mean is I have a customer who I admin their network. They basically
have multple locations setup via site-to-site VPN. All locations are
running Windows XP Pro. I wanted to setup a group policy to enable
administrators to logon to those workstations for remote administration
without asking users to manually enable this function. My guess is to
create a new group policy and edit the "logon locally" policy allowing all
domain users and domain admins access to those workstations but then I
thought this would only affect sitting in front of the workstation as you
still need to enable remote desktop somehow.

Thanks for any help...

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

What I mean is I have a customer who I admin their network. They basically
have multple locations setup via site-to-site VPN. All locations are
running Windows XP Pro. I wanted to setup a group policy to enable
administrators to logon to those workstations for remote administration
without asking users to manually enable this function.

Hi

Take a look at this post for how to enable Remote Desktop with GPO:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=#[email protected]


A side note:
I would think the newsgroup microsoft.public.windows.group_policy is
a better place for this type of questions.

 

[SWalters]

Take a look at this post for how to enable Remote Desktop with GPO:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=#xBIb7FuDHA.2464% 40TK2MSFTNGP12.
phx.gbl

Thanks I will try this next time I am on-site.

A side note:
I would think the newsgroup microsoft.public.windows.group_policy is
a better place for this type of questions.

There are multiple places I was going to ask this but maybe I should
have started there first. Some Microsoft NG's are famous for leaving a
good question unanswered but at the same time I do not like to
crosspost.

Thanks again for the help as I hope this GP change will come through for
me and make my life easier to manage these workstations.