Bill, Group policy is a nightmare to say the least. I'm not sure your budgetary constraints, but my company has adopted using Altiris' products. One of these allows you very good control over what a PC can and can not do. I'd recommend looking at them. Also being a Novell shop, Altiris works well with Novell being that its founder came from Novell.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:05:29AM -0500, Bill Sawyer wrote: > > I work for a fairly large business here at home, and I've been asked to > draft a proposal for new security policies at work. Due > (unsurprisingly) to the budget constraints of our corporate structure, > we operate in a very, well...obsolete environment. The network is > built around a Novell 4.11 server, has two NT servers running (one with > ADP for payroll, the other with MS SQL 7, neither configured in any > type of domain structure), and mostly Windows 95a clients, though we do > have a number of Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 machines. > > What I need to do is basically threefold: > (1) Design a way to manage interoperability at the login level (ie, > login scripts and group policies) > (2) Manage system policies to prevent users from destroying their > systems > (3) Use available and/or freely available tools. > > Though I'm doing my own research, I wanted to toss this one out to all > of you for ideas. And yes, before you guys ask, the suggestions > "update everything to 2000", or, more optimally "ditch MS and switch to > Linux or Unix" have been shot down. > > I know somebody did a Capstone this past semester on securing Windows > 95, and I regretted even at the time not being able to attend. If the > presenter or someone else could provide me with any sort of handouts or > slideshows from the presentation, that would certainly make my job > easier. Any other insight or assistance is welcome. > > Thanks in advance, > Bill > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > -- -- Benjamin Story () Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email and Microsoft-specific /\ attachments. If I wanted to read HTML, I would have visited your website! Support open standards. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
