[dba-Tech] W2K Setup & Admin Principles

Thanks Jon
So are you saying that the way a piece of software installs (to current user
or all users) depends on the authors of that software? That there's nothing
I can do at installation time to affect that? Because Office 97 definitely
installs only to the current user.

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Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



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Date: 02/08/04 11:06

>
> If you install something as the admin, you should be able to see and use
it
> as all other users unless it specifies not to in the set-up, so yes,
copying
> the shortcut will work (usually). Normally the software will install to
the
> "all users" part of documents and settings/start menu, so you
won't need to
> do that.
>
> I don't know about Norton, except that I don't use it. I've never had any
> problem with McAfee and multiple users on the same box though.
>
> You can right click on the desktop, turn active desktop on and remove all
> icons from the screen, or you can do it via Active Directory (don't know
> where though, I imagine it's part of the security settings).
>
> HTH
>
>
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Lacey [mailto:andy at minstersystems.co.uk]
> Sent: 02 August 2004 11:03
> To: Dba Tech
> Subject: [dba-Tech] W2K Setup & Admin Principles
>
>
> This must be trivial for anyone with W2K admin experience, but I'm coming
to
> it for first time so some help would be hugely appreciated.
>
> What we want to achieve is commonplace. A workstation with an admin level
> user and an ordinary (or power) user who can run software but not get at
> setup functionality. Simply put, what is the standard way of achieving
this?
> Let's take our first software, Office 97. If I load it as Admin then only
> Admin can see it to run it. Is there something I can do to make it load
for
> All Users? Or do I have to make my user an admin temporarily and load it a
> 2nd time for them? Surely not. Or do I just copy the shortcut to the All
> Users desktop? Will that really work? Doesn't sound the 'proper' way to
me.
> There must be, I'm certain, a straightforward, simple and correct way to
> achieve this.
>
> Certain software throws up specific problems, again probably because I'm
> going about this wrong. Take Norton AV. I load that under Admin and it
runs
> fine. I download the latest virus defs and run the downloaded EXE and it
> does the business. Now I logon as my user account, but if I then try to
> update the virus defs I'm told the subscription has expired. What's that
all
> about?
>
> And what does one use to make things like 'My Computer' disappear from a
> user's desktop, or 'Control Panel' disappear from the start menu? To
really
> achieve a tightly stripped down UI in other words. Do you guys still use
> TweakUI for things like that, or is there an in-built mechanism? And is
> TweakUI ok in a multiple user setting anyway?
>
> Does anyone have the answers to this lot? And can anyone recommend good
> on-line resources where I can read up and improve my knowledge (shouldn't
be
> difficult!) of this stuff. Because I've never been called upon before to
do
> this kind of thing I've sort of muddled through when I've needed to do
> anything, but now I need to know more. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> --
> Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
>
>
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