jonnyt88

I am working on configuring 500+ laptops for my job over the next several months. We are using Desktop Authority which is a 3rd party Group Policy management program. One nice thing is that it can configure a laptop for you at your first and second logon. Well ALMOST everything. I was looking for a way to automate RAS connections for Windows XP instead of having to go through each laptop, go into network properties, and setup a new network connection. My research led me to rasphone.exe and use a phone book with it (this is good in case we add more numbers). Here is an example of the shortcut placed on user's desktops. C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\rasphone.exe -f "C:\Ras phonebook\phonebook.pbk" -d "RAS" This connects the users great, with one issue. They do not get the connection icon in the tasktray. Before the users enters their password, if you go into properties, the checkbox IS checked to show this icon. I have unchecked it, connected, disconnected, rechecked it, and gone through the process and it still will not show. I also noted this entry in the phonebook : ShowMonitorIconInTaskBar=1 Which I manually changed to 0, tested then back to 1 and tested again. No change I have also done all of this as an administrator and it did not make a difference. Finally I went through the long way of configuring a new network connection, Dial-in to a network and so on....... When I tested that connection the icon appeared, Therefore it is just with the rasphone.exe Does anyone have any suggestions?