#163254 - 2006-06-14 03:56 PM
Initiating kixtart-script via GPO. Bat(ch)-less.
|
Björn
Korg Regular
Registered: 2005-12-07
Posts: 953
Loc: Stockholm, Sweden.
|
Oy!
I talked alot with Jooel earlier this month due to that I was in the middle of rolling out a new logonscript for a customer, and my thought was to make it silent with no output (except logfile), and Bat(ch)-less.
The construction is working, just added in a gpo, under the user-class, under logonscripts wkix.exe, with the kixtart-file as a parameter.
AD is w2k3 sp1 machines, all the clients are XP sp2.
The reason I make this entry is that I think I remember Jooel saying something about that this is not supposed to work? (Am I wrong here Jooel, anyone?).
Planning on releasing a version of the whole script to korg, for some golfing and comments. 
_________________________
as long as it works - why fix it?
If it doesn't work - kix-it!
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
#163260 - 2006-06-15 09:48 AM
Re: Initiating kixtart-script via GPO. Bat(ch)-less.
|
Björn
Korg Regular
Registered: 2005-12-07
Posts: 953
Loc: Stockholm, Sweden.
|
Jooel, there are issues, that I cannot deny. Fast logon optimization can make it more tricky now then before, since it runs a instance eariler then if you'd launch it via batchfile since that is a bit 'later' then this variant. - But, nothing that cannot be fixed =)
And yes, you told me that aswell, tho - remembering things is sometimes a bit tricky 
Les, well. It's your call =) being a noob in almost everything, this folder structure isn't less cryptic then any other 
Doc, User Manager? And you only have one GPO ? You have to be pulling my leg here, or I'm just missinterpeting you. Could you elaborate that '1' GPO ? =)
_________________________
as long as it works - why fix it?
If it doesn't work - kix-it!
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#163263 - 2006-06-15 11:37 AM
Re: Initiating kixtart-script via GPO. Bat(ch)-less.
|
NTDOC
Administrator
Registered: 2000-07-28
Posts: 11624
Loc: CA
|
Quote:
Doc, User Manager? And you only have one GPO ? You have to be pulling my leg here, or I'm just missinterpeting you. Could you elaborate that '1' GPO ? =)
Well it's in ADUC but most people still seem to like to call it User Manager.
Speaking for myself I don't want/need to show/demonstrate the power of policies. If it doesn't give me a specific ROI then I don't use a GPO.
I use a GPO to turn off the XP firewall inside. Yeah I could spend my time setting up the firewall so that everything I want to do remotely works, but that takes a bit more time and resources to test than it does to just disable it. The perimeter is firewalled already and chances are low that anything internal would cause a problem that the firewall would protect from. Most are actually Windows 2000 and they don't have it either.
I came from a Corporate Environment where the Admins in charge of Policies had implemented almost 40 GPOs and it really sucked. Most were for stupid things and caused slow logons.
Don't get me wrong though. If there is something that is business critical to have set correctly then policies are great and I'd probably use it but for now I don't have that issue. But policies just to set policies for visual looks is not my cup of tea, I don't really care if a user wants a bit different looking desktop.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
Moderator: Arend_, Allen, Jochen, Radimus, Glenn Barnas, ShaneEP, Ruud van Velsen, Mart
|
0 registered
and 980 anonymous users online.
|
|
|
