Remote Administration / Ghosting Images & User Accounts

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Grant Mouser

Alright, kinda of a long post, so kick back and relax for
a bit, see if you can't help me out.

I work tech support at a large university, and this
summer we are planning on ghosting an image of XP to
many, many machines. I've read up on most of the
problems we will encounter, and think I have those
figured out, but my question is this.

Large groups of these machines are in public computer
labs spread across campus. Each lab has its own login
and password and user settings. With the ghost image, it
appears that each computer will have the same user
settings, so my question is this:

Is there a way to log into the computers remotely, from
one main computer, and setup a user account and password,
and set priviledges? And if there is, can this be done
in a cookie cutter fashion, where many machiens can be
changed at the same time?

Please, anyone who may know, get back to me on this. I
will check back as often as I can, but if you could email
me any answers you may have, it would be tremendously
appreciated. Thank you!

-Grant
 
Grant said:
Alright, kinda of a long post, so kick back and relax for
a bit, see if you can't help me out.

I work tech support at a large university, and this
summer we are planning on ghosting an image of XP to
many, many machines. I've read up on most of the
problems we will encounter, and think I have those
figured out, but my question is this.

Large groups of these machines are in public computer
labs spread across campus. Each lab has its own login
and password and user settings. With the ghost image, it
appears that each computer will have the same user
settings, so my question is this:

Is there a way to log into the computers remotely, from
one main computer, and setup a user account and password,
and set priviledges? And if there is, can this be done
in a cookie cutter fashion, where many machiens can be
changed at the same time?

Please, anyone who may know, get back to me on this. I
will check back as often as I can, but if you could email
me any answers you may have, it would be tremendously
appreciated. Thank you!

-Grant
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These computers are not in a domain?
In the labs I managed, it was easy enough to put all of the machines in one
domain, separate OUs for each lab and apply Group Policies throughout.

This centralizes everything.
 
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