Hi all,
I am hoping that some kind person can help me out with this, probably, rather easy to answer question.
I am responsible for a remote office with about 30 users. Most of these are contractors meaning we have a regular turn over of people. Due to budget restraints the internet connection between the main office (where I am located) and the remote office – over which our VPN runs – is not the fastest.
When a new user starts I create the user account on a local server or RDP onto the DC at that remote office. The server (DC) at the remote office is part of the same domain – which also services the file/print role. When the new user starts I remote control their PC (using 3rd party remote control s/ware) and set up their printers and Outlook settings, etc.
As I quite often get poor performance when trying to remote control their PC’s what I am after is a way to automate the whole Outlook, printer configuration side of things. I know I can add printers via scripting though wasn’t too sure on the initial Outlook configration side of things. What would be nice is that when they log on for the first time a script (or similar) is run and sets everything up for m, ie: all I’d need to give them is their user name and password.
Any ideas or assistance much appreciated. I’d also be really interested to know how other people configure first time users configuration settings. Also any good web resources on this topic would also help.
Thanks in advance,
Simon 🙂
