Oh help please, wise ones…
I just took charge of a school that has a pile of wifi Win XP laptops (Dells and Lenovos). The laptops connect to the Internet wirelessly through signaling stations in the classrooms, but there’s no school file server and no administrative server to which I have access. I must currently administer each laptop individually. I’m planning on changing this, of course, but for now I need a quick fix.
The user Groups available on the laptops (User, PowerUser, Administrator, etc.) are not so helpful for laptops in schools. I read the useful article “Lock down user desktops with Group Policy” and was hoping to use Group Policy to modify the standard XP user accounts. The Administrative Templates appear to give me every kind of control I want, but they also seem to apply these controls to every single user. Is this accurate? I want to modify certain groups but not others. Is there a way to apply Administrative Templates to only one group?
Thanks for any help,
Lev