Re: Vista LAPTOP client and SBS 2003 Environment

So you're trying to join the laptop without disabling the sleep/hibernate
functions in power management? From a group policy perspective, it doesn't
matter how the laptop is joined - group policies will be applied to it
either way.

Two choices: turn off the power management restrictions in the SBS Windows
Vista policy. (This is what I would do - if the users are smart enough to
enable sleep mode, they should be smart enough to realize that doing so is
going to prevent remote access, and the Vista box will warn them if they try
it).

The other choice is to put the laptop in its own OU. Then unlink the GPO
from the top level, and link it to the OU you want it to apply to. As long
as you don't link to the OU containing the laptop, it won't get the policy.

An additional advantage to the first option is that the rest of the items
set in that policy will still be applied to the laptop in question (such as
firewall policies).


"JoeF" <JoeF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BFCADDBE-CF42-47CC-B0FB-A20640EE4269@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you for your time in responding to my question.
In the link you provided:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9BF2F1E4-1B2C-471B-A284-E0C8C169FAC3&displaylang=en

It states in the last line of the overview: "Changes to the Power
Management
settings to support Remote Desktop."

This is what I'm posting about. I had stated in my 1st post that I have
ALL
updates related to SBS2003 and Vista.

Now, what is the best method to join a Vista laptop to a SBS 2003 network?
Any additional assistance is strongly appreciated.

-JoeF


""Robbin Meng [MSFT]"" wrote:

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your post and Jim's input.

It is always recommend to use the Small Business Server Network
Configuration Wizard by typing: http://servername/connectcomputer to join
all clients to SBS 2003 domain. As far as I know and tests, there is no
such a default GPO to configure Power Management on Windows Vista
computer.
Do you mean all other Windows XP and Windows 2003 computer do not have
such
kind of issue? If so, please double check the group policies that applied
to the Windows Vista computer to see if there is such a Power Management
GPO and whether it is assigned by your SBS server or just a local Group
Policy?

By the way, please also upgrade the SBS server and Windows Vista computer
to the latest Service Pack and updates.

Here is another similar post which may be of some help:

Where is Default policy for client WSs
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?&query=Wh
ere+is+Default+policy+for+client+WSs&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=micro
soft.public.windows.server.sbs&p=1&tid=9e0b1093-12a1-40a7-a322-e9159ed05e60

More information:
================
Windows Small Business Server 2003: Windows Vista and Outlook 2007
compatibility update
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926505/en-us


Hope this helps.


Best regards,
Robbin Meng(MSFT)
Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support




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