Windows 2000 Individual Logins Wizard

This is a "Wizard" to create individual student logons on your school's Windows 2000/2003 server.
This wizard is a free download for all NSW Government Schools. Two different versions are available.

Here's what this six-step (all-in-one) wizard does:

Using an OASIS Export Report (like in EduWeb), it extracts all your students to a disk file - v3.3
Using DET EMU, extract your students and their NSW DET Internet Username to a disk file - v5.1
A utility is then run to ask you a few questions:
- The full school DNS name set on your server
- The server name
- The drive letter on the server you want home folders on
- The drive letter you want students to see as their home folder
- The folder name where your home folders will be
- Whether you want students to have Full or Modify rights to their home folder
- Whether you want students to "own" their home folder
- The filename you'd like to use for the students' login script
- The desired login name format: stuart.hasic, hasic.stuart, hasics, stuarthasic, hasicstuart (v3.3)
- v4.0 will automatically create accounts on your local server using the DET User ID
- Whether you'd like to use Student Profiles and the UNC Path for the Profiles
- What OUs you'd like - School, Students, the year they are due to leave the school (any combination)
- What scholastic years you'd like to have individual logins for (you can choose any or all)
- Whether you want unique passwords applied for each student in the form abc123 (easy to remember licence plate style) or a common password you can set.
- Whether you'd like passwords to be set to "Never Expire" or "Force User to Change at First Logon"

Once you've answered these questions, the wizard does the rest for you -

It then creates the selected OUs and user accounts for you with each user placed in their appropriate OU. It also sets the desired password type
It creates all of the home folders for every user
It grants the specified user rights and ownership to each student's home folder
It also grants Full rights to student home folders to Administrators and the StudentHomes group
It provides you with an Excel spreadsheet that contains each new user's username (SAM Account), password and home folder details.

That's it. From start to finish, our testing has shown you can create 450 student accounts with home folders and full permissions in about 5 minutes - including the export from OASIS or DET EMU. Try beat that any other way...

Then, after you've run the whole process for the first time and told it to create accounts for ALL students (whether you use them or not is up to you), you have a utility to maintain your accounts as enrolments change. At any time, you can export from OASIS or ISP Console (step 1) and re-run the same utility (which remembers the previous settings you used). It will create new accounts and home folders for student names from OASIS that don't already have one and not touch any existing students' accounts. An excellent feature which is obviously even quicker than the initial setup of users.

Another utility is included with the Windows 200x Logons Wizard that allows you to apply write (change) rights to each student's new logon account to their own EduWeb folder. In other words, now that your students have their own logon name, they can also each have a totally secure EduWeb website that only they are able to modify. No more worrying whether some other student will vandalise their EduWeb pages. Full instructions for using the utility (screenshot below) are in the W2kwizard.pdf file found in the W2KWizard download.

So, if you have a new Windows 200x server at your school, and have not yet setup individual logins for your students but would like to do so, this is the utility for you - the Windows 200x Logons Wizard!

(662kB - v5.11)	Click the button at left to download the Windows 200x Logons Wizard for DET EMU. When prompted, choose Save to Disk and select Desktop (on the server!) as the location. Then run the w2kwizard5setup.exe file you just downloaded. The new W2KWizard folder on the server C: drive will then contain a W2kwizard.pdf file which contains the full instructions and will automatically be displayed. This version only allows you to create logon names based on the DET User ID.
(490kB - v3.3)	Click the button at left to download the Windows 200x Logons Wizard for OASIS. When prompted, choose Save to Disk and select Desktop (on the server!) as the location. Then take a blank, formatted floppy disk and place it in drive A: and run the w2kwizardsetup.exe file you just downloaded. The new W2KWizard folder on the server C: drive will then contain a W2kwizard.pdf file which contains the full instructions. This version allows you to create logon names in one of five different formats.
Hints, Tips, FAQs and Troubleshooting	It is strongly recommended you also read through (or print) this section of the website to assist you with the process of creating individual logins for your students. NEW!
folderredirect.pdf (68kB)	This document is useful for schools that would like to implement Folder Redirection. This will allow you to redirect the "My Documents" folder to each student's home folder.
roamingprofiles.pdf (22kB)	This document is taken from the Windows 2000 TILT workshop 4 and provides a guide to setting up roaming profiles on your server system.
mandatoryprofiles.pdf (125kB)	This document is taken from the Windows 2000 TILT workshop 4 and provides a guide to setting up mandatory profiles on your server system.

Any comments you may have about this Wizard and how you found using it would be most appreciated. Please forward them to stu_hasic@yahoo.com

Acknlowledgement:

The initial version of this Logons Wizard would not have been produced without the dedicated assistance and continual prompting from Jeffery Stubbs. Many thanks go to him for his support.