Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Active Directory Integration

We decided at the last meeting that Zenworks testing should be done on computers that are joined to the Active Directory domain; the integrated login is much simpler than having to use multiple logins.

This means that for test computers, we will first join the computer to the domain before pushing the Zenworks agent. We copy the local "EISD" account to the "default users" profile so that any new user profiles created will have the same data as before, with only a couple of differences: 1) the background image may not automatically get applied to the new profile; 2) desktop icons will all be there, but probably not in the exact same locations.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am going through AD Group Policies making a few 'tweaks' to help this process go more smoothly.

So far, I have disabled "Automatic Updates" and "Offline files". Those services will not function correctly in our environment and seem to be turned 'on' by default.