What's the best practice to setup laptop users capable to work at home and office

[oscarmok]

We are currenly in Windows 95 environment. In the next two months, we
will upgrade our laptop to XP (new hardware too). In Win95, we don't
have to worry users login without domain present (we don't have
profile present in Win95). But this is not the case in XP (profile
and security issue).

What's the best practice to setup laptop so users login to ad in
office and using the same username and password to login while offline
and home network seamlessly. All desktop icons, program settings,
policy remains the same (unable to install software).

I appreciate any input.

Thanks

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

You can still login to your laptop using your domain credentials as long as
the domain administrator has enabled the use of cached credentials for
logon.
This means there is no change in the user experience as they logon using the
same process and username and password whether online or offline.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Even when at home, just use the domain account. You'll be able to
log in using cached credentials.

Cached Logon Information
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q172931


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[oscarmok]

The problem is there is limitation - 50 times login. Once it's pass
50 times, it will crap out. If a user is away for a month and not
connect to our LAN, it's going to become an issue.

Any other suggestion?

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

The problem is there is limitation - 50 times login. Once it's pass
50 times, it will crap out. If a user is away for a month and not
connect to our LAN, it's going to become an issue.

Hi

Actually, there is no limitations to the number of times you can log on with
cached credentials in a row.

This limited number of times is a common misunderstanding caused by the bad
wording in the documentation for cached credentials, mentioning that the cached
credentials is set to default 10 logons (can be set to up to 50).

What it really means is that the computer will remember the credentials for up
to 10 *different* users, and as long as you are among one of those, you can log
on with cached credentials as many times as you want, over a indefinite time.