Windows XP Home does not support membership in an Active Directory domain.
So if you are looking to manage the machines from AD, you would need to
upgrade the laptop to at least Windows XP Professional. However, if you are
using the machines just for access to networked resources, this should still
be possible but you would have to do it manually in many cases (no network
based login scripts or pass through authentication).
TJ
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sherry Ward <sward@acdsnet.org> wrote:
> STill looking at netbook possibilities, and seems many netbooks come
> with Win XP Home. I've had trouble networking the Home edition before.
> Am I missing something or have others had the same problem. Solutions?
>
> thanks,
> sherry
>
>
> Sherry Ward
> Director of Technology
> Alexandria Country Day School
> 2400 Russell Road
> Alexandria, VA 22301
> 703-837-1317 (direct) sward@acdsnet.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A forum for independent school educators
> [mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Keith E Gatling
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:17 AM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice: Beyond the Cost Savings
>
> Something just occurred to me regarding any supposed cost-savings. I
> know
> that at least for our school, we still have licenses for many copies of
> older versions of Office (both Mac and Windows) that still work, but
> just
> aren't the latest and greatest. So the only cost-savings would result
> from
> not upgrading those versions.
>
> But now the question arises of what we do about those old versions. Do
> we
> start publicizing now that starting in the 2009-10 school year we'll
> only be
> supporting OpenOffice on the student computers and make the already paid
> for
> Microsoft product go away? Do we announce that we'll only be *teaching*
> OpenOffice, but the older versions of Office will still be available on
> the
> computers for as long as they'll still run? Is there some third way that
> I
> haven't thought of?
>
> And, by the way, it's my understanding here that we're only talking
> about
> savings from using OpenOffice on *student* computers, and that faculty
> and
> staff members who need and use all the extra bells and whistles
> available in
> the Microsoft product would still have it available on their computers.
> --
> keg
>
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