How would you handle these situations in a windows 2003 working environment?

Question

The company you work for is setting up a new Windows 2003 domain that will have about 500 user accounts in it when finished. The user accounts will be create in groups over a one month period starting with 10-Technical staff accounts the 1st week, 50-Bussiness office accounts the 2nd week, 90-Administration accounts the 3rd week and 350 sales and support accounts the last week. The president of the company has decided that the 4 top level managers will have an office with a computer at each division they manage.

My goals are to.....
1.Determine the best way for the Personal office to send you the names of the user accounts to be created each week.
2.What is the most efficient way to create these accounts?
3.How do you handle the users that work on more than one computer?

How would you handle these situations?

Answer 1

To previous answer... RDP should not be used by regular employees, especially if there will be 500 users on the network. The throughput caused by this will bring the network to its knees.

1) This is up to you. I'd suggest by email or filling out an on-line form so they can input all the resources needed by each employee.

2) Since you'll have to create a lot of accounts in a very short time-frame, it might be best to create the user accounts in bulk. You can do this by using scripted dos commands. Going thru the GUI will be very time consuming. Create the basic accounts using dos commands and just customize each one with security groups later.

3) RDP is not the way to go with this one. I would think twice about using Remote Profiles also. In our organization, we have each user store their personal data on a network share reserved for them. The share automatically maps as a network drive no matter what PC they log onto. They can log onto any PC on the network and immediately get to their data. This has the added bonus of not having the users worry about backing anything up. If you store all user data on one massive file server, you just have to worry about backing up the file server, not the individual user PC's.

If it's only the four managers who will need to work on more than one, then Remote Profiles would be best. However, if a lot of users need to do this later on, the network will slow to a crawl.

Answer 2

Answer to 3rd.

Users can use TS / RDP to connect to the machines at their desk.