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We have about a year’s experience with SL, managing about 6000 users in one domain, and 1000 in another. I find it to be an extremely useful product. The point of SL isn’t that it does anything you can’t easily do with other scripting languages (e.g. vbscript or Perl) if you know what you’re doing. The point is the ease with which you can do it. Most changes you make to the desktop environment are done by selecting the option in the management console (GUI driven). You can also develop custom scripts (such as to roll out a Microsoft patch). Custom scripts are typically written in KiXtart, although others can be used. What I find to be the most valuable part of the way SL works is the validation logic. If I only want something to apply to Windows 2000 Pro and XP, I only select those in the GUI. If I only want to roll out a change to a specific subnet, I set that. To date, I have never seen this validation logic fail. Forums at both scriptlogic.com and kixtart.org have been among the best community-run support I’ve seen anywhere. If I have any complaint, it would be that I have to maintain separate consoles for each of the 2 domains. It would be nice to have a console that starts at the enterprise level, where certain settings could be maintained, and then below that, domain specific settings. I am told that this functionality is in the early planning stages for a future release.
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Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We are migrating from Netware 5.1 to AD and are looking at Scriptlogic to replace our Novell logon scripts. Any opinions about Scriptlogic would be appreciated. Thanks Nathan |
- [ActiveDir] ScriptLogic Nathan Casey
- Creamer, Mark
