[Substitute for Novell Application Launcher]

We did a Novell migration for a customer last year. And we had the same need of new NAL as you're having right now.

Microsoft doesn't offer a sort of Application Launcher as Novell does.

Only the shortcut way. Either in start menu or explorer view.

(Explorer view can be closed by the end user, the NAL couldn't be closed)

So a colleague did some vb.net programming and created a simple GUI. To launch applications.

We migrated to Softgrid (called App-V now).

Our application launcher just executes the sfttray.exe with "application name" as parameter, to start an application.

[Need help for logon script , Urgent.]

Try this one:

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
	& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colSettings = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
	("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each OS In colSettings
	'Wscript.Echo OS.Caption
	'WScript.Echo OS.Version

	strOS = OS.Caption
	WScript.Echo strOS

	Select Case strOS

		Case "Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
		WScript.Echo "XP"
		'paste your gpupdate code

		Case "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional"
		WScript.Echo "2000"
		'paste your secedit code

	End Select
Next

[Need help for logon script , Urgent.]

To determine the Windows version:

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
	& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colSettings = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
	("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each OS In colSettings
	Wscript.Echo OS.Caption
	WScript.Echo OS.Version
Next

For XP for example, it will give this output:

Microsoft Windows XP Professional
5.1.2600

You can put the output in a variable and make a Select Case to execute te gpupdate or secedit, dependig on the Windows version.

Happy coding.

[User Profiles vs Folder Redirection]

To have auto backups of your redirected folders, I should use DFS (Server 2003 R2).

Configure folder redirection to a DFS path, which is configured with redundant shares.

[Logon scripts via Group Policy, who do they run as ?]

For example if they are just in the local users group and a script calls for files to be copied to the local PC will the copy fail ?.

If you configure a loginscript via group policy. This script will be executed if the user is a member of the OU where the GPO w/ the loginscript is linked.

So if the user is just in the local users group (client XP machine), the loginscript will not be executed.

edit: I didn't get your question right :-)