1. W2000 at Saclay Joël Surget CEA/Saclay DAPNIA/SEI

2. Summary A pure W2000 domain Group policy Products Configuration Computer startup script User startup script MUI : Problems DFS : Problems Conclusions

3. A Pure W2000 Domain (1/2) A new domain 2 DCs, one domain DNS, one domain DFS Root, one file server Only W2000 clients Only English version (with French language pack if necessary)

4. A Pure W2000 Domain (2/2) Try to use the max. of W2000 functionalities No SMS No time to try it ! Cost User  local “Power Users” (no local administrators privileges) All based on the group policies

5. The Organization Unit OU = Green PC Default configuration No product, no startup script OU = Orange PC OU = Laptop OU = Desktop OU = Red PC OU = Laptop OU = Desktop

6. Default Configuration Audit policy and Event log policy IP : Primary DNS Suffix IE : Favorites Folder redirection: My documents  network location Laptop : “My documents” is “offline folders” Roaming profiles: Exclude some directories ( Local Settings, Temporary Internet Files …)

7. Products (1/2) Assigned or published with Group Policy Official MSI Office 2000 (  MST for laptops and desktops) Assigned to computer MS Publisher / Windows Draw (Published) MS Project 2000 (Published) Perl (Published)

8. Products (2/2) Handmade MSI (Windows Install LE) Assigned to the computer: GV, Acrobat Reader, HPGL Viewer … McAfee Published to the user Exceed 6.2 Emacs Netscape Root …

9. Computer Startup Script (1/6) Run before the user login But run after products installation With local administrators privileges With network access Domain Computers : Read on the network files (in the Authenticated Users group by default) Any script languages (VBS…)

10. Computer Startup Script (2/6) Can ask questions ! To do everything you can’t do with Group policies Hot fixes and Service Packs IP Configuration Registry keys Test …

11. Computer Startup Script (3/6) First boot after joining the domain (test a special registry key) SP1 (if necessary) French Language Pack Add “Domain Users” group in local “Power Users” group Modify IP configuration Create c:\temp directory Reboot (using WMI)

12. Computer Startup Script (4/6) Each reboot Hot fixes (if necessary) Bugs correction (if necessary)

13. Computer Startup Script (5/6) Several scripts in the same group policy (You can choose the order) Several group policies for the same computer : each script one by one You can also have shutdown script

14. Computer Startup Script (6/6) The products are installed before the scripts execution  Problem ? The SP1 is for example installed after the installation of the products: Can be a problem

15. User Startup Script Run with user privileges and environment Default user environment Map network disk J:  new home directory (backup, quotas) K:  scratch directory (no backup, no quotas) N:  old NT4 domain home directory

16. Group Policies : Problems The group policies are applied during the first reboot after the PC is a member of the domain Sometimes, it works fine Sometimes, you need to reboot one or two times before the application of the group policy Why ? Same if a Group Policy is modified

17. MUI : Multi Language Interface On an English version of W2000, the MUI changes the user interface language (95% of the menus, help …) Only one version of W2000 on an heterogeneous domain French, English … language for the interface The same for Office 2000

18. MUI: But … Microsoft Developers tend to forget this product: After SP1 installation, mix of French and English menu ( hot fix available now) After IE 5.5 installation, mix of French and English menu (no hot fix yet)

19. MUI: But … The default NT group names are modified Everyone  “Tout le monde” Administrators  Administrateurs Problem with script ( “cacls” for ex.) But the default user names are not modified (administrator, guest…)

20. Problem with DFS Offline folders and DFS Files are often de-synchronized Offline Folder, DFS and Security The synchronized files have not the good permissions DFS and Home directory Problem if the home directory and a network disk use the same DFS root

21. Conclusion (1/2) Each W2000 new feature is working fine separately But we have some problems using several new features together

22. Conclusion (2/2) People are quite happy with Nice NT and don’t want to change to W2000 20 PCs now, 50 at the end of November Physicists are using Linux more and more Less and less physics on Windows