There are several managed machines running Windows. Many are in the various student labs, and several more are in offices around the buildings.

The Enet Managed Windows machines:

• All allow any user with a valid UofM AD account to log in:
  • User accounts on AD use the same password as your University Internet Login (and are changed with it).
  • Unix Home directories are directly available as H:\ on Windows.
  • Users are not permitted to create files on the local hard drives (C: and D:) except into C:\temp (or D:\temp) and %TMP%, BOTH will be cleared the next time anyone logs on to the machine. Save your files to H:, G:, R: or U:.
  • Also - all user RUN REGISTRY KEYS will be cleared during login (before they are used).
    This means that selecting a preference to run a program on login WILL NOT WORK. (you must manually put a link to the program in your personal startup folder) Note - system RUN REGISTRY KEYS are cleared on every reboot.
  • Users are prevented from installing any software which requires System Registry modification or files added to C: or D: (this is both a security and virus prevention feature). This also may prevent the installation of some screen savers.
  
  
• All use the following directory structure on H: for Start Menu and Desktop files
  (if you are looking for files from a Windows application, check under H:\wnt\):
  • Personal Start Menu -- H:\wnt\start_menu\
  • Personal Desktop -- H:\wnt\desktop\
  • Personal Documents -- H:\wnt\documents\ (Most applications look here first).
  • Personal Startup -- H:\wnt\start_menu\programs\startup\ (any files here will be auto opened AFTER the Start Menu appears).
  • Personal Application Data -- H:\wnt\appdata\ (Misc settings - note: IF NOT THERE, it may be in "H:\wnt\bin\user\application data").
  • Personal .bat (and other executable) files -- H:\wnt\bin\ (added to %PATH% when you log in).
  • Personal Initialization Script -- H:\wnt\bin\init\shell.bat (Run if found INSTEAD of the explorer [the start menu]). Contact Enet if you wish to use this.
  
  
• Have the following software and more available (Most applications save files and configuration information on the users home directory or in a personal registry file kept on the machine. This allows you to set personal preferences of color, background, mouse-handedness, language, default printer, etc. -- without affecting other users' preferences).
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader - .pdf viewer (acroread.bat)
  • Ansys (ansys.bat)
  • XEmacs - Text document editor with menues (xemacs.bat)
  • Gnu GS View (GV) - Postscript (.ps) file viewer (gsview.bat)
  • GIMP - the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (gimp.bat)
  • Mathematica (mathematica.bat)
  • MatLab (matlab.bat)
  • Microsoft Office Pro -- User files under H:\wnt\documents (office.bat)
  • Excel - Spread sheets (office.bat e)
  • Word - Word processing (office.bat w)
  • Access - database (office.bat a)
  • PowerPoint - Presentation creation (office.bat p)
  • Mozilla SeaMonkey, Firefox, Thunderbird - Browser and E-mail -- most files under h:\wnt\appdata\mozilla (mozilla.bat, seamonkey,bat, firefox.bat, thunderbird.bat)
  • PrintKey 2000 - screen capture and print utility (printkey.bat)
  • Pro Engineer - files and config.pro under h:\wnt\proe (proe.bat)
  • Putty SSH - Terminal Emulation and SSH client (putty.bat ssh)
  • WinSCP - Secure Copy Program using the ssh protocol (winscp.bat)
  • 7-zip - Create and extract zip archives (7-zip.bat)
  
  
• Have network printers mounted from sp (the same server used by unix machines).