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What to consider when installing win2000

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by tobbe_nova

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We are installing Win2000 on all out machines in our corporate network. Have been running Win95 up til now an we are currently creating ghostimages for every machine type that we have. Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on which SP:s and security updates an so on that should be used, and which ones that should be avoided. We are also upgrading to Office2000 and IE5.5. We are also upgrading our servers to Novell 5.
Thx!

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by erikdr

SP2 seems good enough. For a workstation nothing more seems needed.
Depending on roles of Windows servers in your network, you might or might not have to use SysPrep together with Ghost. Do research the SID issues well before starting.
Of coursedon't forget to include the Novell client. Also do research your Novell cooperation - Workstation Manager needs to be configured well, contrary to W95 in W2K you _do_ need to cater for the local machine userid's.

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- The Netherlands

by vinnyd

With Novell 5 there is a number of printing problems.

W2k has to be using the newest novell client or you may not be able to see the NDPS printers.

Also if using the HPgateway to connect to HP jetdirect print servers there is a problem withprinting to slower printers more many windows programs. What happens is the whole print job does not print. You see at the end of the reports missing lines.

There is a patch from HP to load on the Novell 5 server to add a timeout option on the HPGateway to fix the missing report lines problem.

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