Day 7 Blog Post.
Today we started out with an explanation of logon scripts by Lyle. Logon scripts are commands that are executed when endusers log on to a machine on the network. The logon scripts determine what programs, services, desktop icons, etc that the user has access to. For example a student might be limited as to what programs he or she can access or what their desktop will look like.
Before we could get started with today’s work we had to finish up yesterday’s exercises which consisted of remotely turning off one of our workstations and hiding the desktop. We were able to get this done by downloading a free program called specopsgpudate. Once we had the program installed it was a simple matter to go into administrative tools on the Windows 2008 Server, look up the program under group policies and then run the command to turn off the desktop from the server. It is cool that a network administrator can remotely control any machine on the network from a remote location.
Once we had completed yesterday’s tasks we were able to begin working on our login scripts. We used a utility called NETLOGON which allowed us to set up the login script. As usual, we did run into some glitches along the way. It seems our folder list was not replicating across the survey. We could not see all the folders on the main server. We conducted several tests that showed that everything was working properly. It was thanks to Sean who had a look at our configuration and noticed that our server was attempting to replicate from Rocky and Gail’s server. We fixed that problem, rebooted our machines and it was clear sailing after that.
I found the information at this link to be particularly useful.
http://www.petri.co.il/setting-up-logon-script-through-active-directory-users-computers-windows-server-2008.htm
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