Deploying SP2 remotely and Remote Desktop dies

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Grant

Hi, I am currently investigating deploying SP2 remotely
to approx. 130 laptops in the field. The users on these
laptops only have user access. After installing SP2 the
Remote Desktop function is disabled, which doesn't allow
me to log back in and finish the setup. Is there any way
to have Remote Desktop enabled when installing SP2? We
can't give out the admin password for obvious reasons and
can't have them shipped in for even more obvious reasons.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Grant.
 
If you can script a program to run after the SP2 reboot, you can open port
3389 in the firewall with the NETSH FIREWALL ... command.

Also, if these laptops can be managed by Group Policy, you can set a GPO to
allow Remote Desktop.

I know these are quick, non-specific answers. I'll look into this deeper
later on.
 
The best way controlling this is to user Group Policy Objects from Active
Directory.
The you can force the machine and/or the users settings on a very detailed
level.
This way any changes made either by installs or users are reset when users
log off/log on, or at reboot(machine settings).

GPO's is easy to get started with, just test...go til Active Directory users
and computer on a domain controller.
The beste way to do this is to put your own user and computer in an new OU,
set at gpo on it, and test. An easy test is to hide all desktop items from
users(your self)....

Every domain based on w2k ad or w2003 ad and xp klients should use som
gpo-os....they give you a looooot...
 
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