Re: /sigh/ Latops in a domain...

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Hi Gabe,

You are always welcome! Thanks for your update.

If you want to launch two applications before the logon screen appears, I
think you may edit a batch file containing the commands to run these two
applications and make the batch file as Startup scripts.

Here is an example of a batch file to run two applications:

start C:\Progra~1\ABCDEF~1\a.exe
start C:\Progra~1\ABCDEF~1\b.exe
exit

Note:
1. Please replace a.exe and b.exe and their folders with your own
applications and relevant folders.
2. The program's folder name must be 8dot3 format, such as
C:\Progra~1\ABCDEF~1

However, I am not sure even though you can launch these two applications
before logon, your old issue (cannot access file share) certainly can be
fixed. Of course, it is valuable to have a try.

For more information about batch files and scripting, the following
Microsoft Web site may be your reference:

Using batch files
<http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en
-us/batch.mspx>

To assign computer startup scripts
<http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en
-us/gptext_assigncomputerstartupscripts.mspx>

Windows Script Host
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/wsconwhatiswsh.asp>

TechNet - Script Center
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx

Have a nice day!

Sincerely,
Tom Che

Microsoft Online Partner Support
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>From: "Gabe Knuth" <gknuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>References: <ecg515OfFHA.3256@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: Re: /sigh/ Latops in a domain...
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>Thank you. The password never expires option violates our Sarbanes-Oxley
>policy. We might get an exception for it, but I'd like to exhaust all
other
>options before reccommending that.
>
>Sorry for posting in the wrong group.
>
>One question, though - would this group be appropriate for finding a way
to
>launch two applications before the logon screen appears? I have been able
>to launch one at a time by using startup scripts in local policies, but I
>can't launch two of them at the same time (one has to exit first, which I
>can't have since both the dialer and VPN client need to be running all the
>time).
>
>Thanks much,
>Gabe
>
>"Tom Che [MSFT]" <v-tomche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:3yPcvzWfFHA.1336@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hi Gabe,
>>
>> Thanks for posting here.
>>
>> From your post, my understanding of this issue is: The laptop users
cannot
>> access the file share via VPN due to their password expiration. If this
>> is
>> not correct, please feel free to let me know.
>>
>> This issue seems to be related to Active Directory, so I would suggest
>> posting in the newsgroup below:
>>
>> microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory
>>
>> This is a more appropriate forum for your question where you will get the
>> most qualified pool of respondents and other partners in the newsgroups
>> who
>> can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us.
>> Thank you for your understanding.
>>
>> However, I think there may be a simply way to resolve this issue:
>>
>> You may add all laptop users to a Group in AD, and then apply a security
>> policy similar with "Password never expires" on this Group.
>>
>> This is just an idea, for more detailed about this, please post in above
>> newsgroup. I believe you will get perfect solution there.
>>
>> Have a nice day!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Tom Che
>>
>> Microsoft Online Partner Support
>> Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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>>>From: "Gabe Knuth" <gknuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Subject: /sigh/ Latops in a domain...
>>>Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:05:52 -0500
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>>>This old battle again...
>>>
>>>We've got an AD (previously used only Netware for the PC's) with 1200 or
>> so
>>>users in it. About 100 of those are laptop users that are rarely in the
>>>office.
>>>
>>>In the past, the users would log on to their local machine, connect via
>>>Contivity VPN, then authenticate to a Windows file share in a domain that
>>>pretty much only servers were in by using their domain credentials.
Their
>>>passwords were set to never expire and were synched manually with their
>>>Novell and local machine passwords.
>>>
>>>Now we're adding them to AD. We've got a corporate SOX policy in place,
>> so
>>>each user is required to change their password afte x-number of days.
>>>Problem is, these users don't connect to the network with their laptops
>>>before their password expires. That works OK for the local machine,
it'll
>>>just cache it until they plug in again, but if they log on with their
>> cached
>>>password (after connecting to the VPN), they won't be able to connect to
>> the
>>>file share.
>>>
>>>What's everyone else doing in situations like this? I've been trying to
>>>find a way to have their dial-up client and their VPN client launch
before
>>>the logon to the box. That should fix this. It seems to me there is a
>>>simpler way, and I'm just mucking it up and over thinking it.
>>>
>>>Any thoughts are appreciated.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Gabe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>

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