User Accounts

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Muzzy

We recently had had a clear out of our office PCs (+/12) and replaced them
all over a 2 month period with new machines running XP Pro on a simple peer
N/W.

Problem is that they were all installed using just the Administrator's
account and now we want to set them up with user accounts and p/w protected
admin acccounts - the main
(and only) motive being to stop users installing software themselves.

How can we do this and yet still ensure that settings such as docs, e-mail,
internet access will be transferred to the new user profile i.e. not have to
be set up manuallyon each machine.

TIA
Muzzy
 
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Steven L Umbach

Here is a link to a KB article that should help on copying profile settings. Also
FYI XP Pro has the very powerful Software Restriction Policies to lock down what a
user can install/run on there computer. You may find that users are still able to
install some software on their computers that bypass the usual restrictions that
require and administrator. See KB link for more info on it and be sure to thoroughly
test before implementing. Enforcement rule can allow restrictions to bypass local
administrators. SRP can also help protect against viruses/worms. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310791
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...et/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/rstrplcy.asp
 

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