Roaming Computing System (Windows Edition) 3.6
Create a User Account
Supplemental Guide for Major Proprietary Applications
Introduction
This document is a supplemental guide to the creating a user account guide describing per-user configuration of various major proprietary / commercial applications that are likely to only be required on particular workstations, and few workstations at that.
Assuming these applications save their shortcuts in All User's Start Menu, Desktop and Quick Launch locations, which they invariably do, then leave them where they are without giving them to each user.
Microsoft Office 97
Elevate the user's priviliges temporarily:
net rpc group addmem "Domain Admins" <username> -U winadmin
Run the installer to configure it for both the user and for the workstation
- on the server P:\MSOffice\Setup.exe
- Enter the product key
- Choose 'Run from network server'
- The installer gives error messages about not all network resources being available
- Windows XP additionally has the error message: "HTMLMARQ.OCX was unable to register itself in the system registry" and then says the setup was not completed successfully. In this case you can only run Microsoft Office 97 direct from P:.
Remove temporary permissions elevation:
net rpc group delmem "Domain Admins" <username> -U winadmin
Quickbooks
Pickup the Company File from S:
Skype
- When a user first runs it it visibly configures itself then asks you to sign up or sign in
- Per-user config: Tools → Options → Advanced → When a new version of Skype is available → [] Notify me → [] Automatically download and install it
- You can test it by ringing your own phone