I have been placed in the awkward position of administering a Windows network with about 100 users and 7 servers. I am a Cisco guy 1st off and have to learn as much as i can as fast as I can. I know some basics and lucky for me that the network is in good shape and everything has ran smoothly for quite a while. Instead of reading large books with tons of info that i may never use I am wondering what I should concentrate on 1st. The Domain controller is on an nt4 box BTW… User permissions and policies I understand. Creating new users I know as well. What I am wanting to do is to have the ability to shoot software (windows updates or whatever I like) to the client desktops. Also I would love to be able to schedule tasks for all of the client machines that would be automated on the weekends such as disk defrag, temp files cleared and then have them all shut down when finished. I have heard of things like this but have no clue where to look or what to do to even get started. Most clients are on windows 2000 with a few XP pros and couple nt4 boxes (not for long!) if that helps. Thanks for any input and wish me luck. Im gonna need it !
