Interactive logon message

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I have written the text for our interactive logon screen but am having problems getting it all to display. I have found that the text will not display after a "," is inserted in the message. There also seems to be a limit to the number of charicters that can be on any one line. Are there any guidelines to how to create one of these screens?

 

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Jim,

The default limitations of the LegalNoticeCaption in Windows 2000 are:
limited to 512 characters maximum and quotes, apostrophes, and commas count
as carrier returns and everything following them will be cut-off, do not use
them.(proper English will have to suffer) This functionality has been
changed in Windows XP and Windows 2003, however this introduces even more
interesting possibilities. (Policies created on 2003 or XP with commas, etc
will display properly on Windows 2003 and XP only, Windows 2000 Client will
not support the new method of storing the banner unless you install Q823146
hotfix on the machine. (ths hotfix requires SP4 and can currently only be
obtained by contacting Microsoft Product Support (although the call will be
free)) The hotfix will allow Windows 2000 to store the LegalNoticeBanner in
the same way as Windows XP and 2003. If you have Windows 2000, XP, and 2003
in your environment, I would additionally recommend ONLY modifying these
settings from the XP or 2003 machines.

If your legal team is dead set on having a logon banner that is over 512
chars, you will need to manually put the banner into the registry of the
clients using a logon script. (The 512 character limitation is a limitation
of the Group Policy interface, not the registry) You will need to modify the
data in the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
\legalnoticetext (this should be a string value (REG_SZ))

Here are some Technet articles that may provide additional information:
330618 Commas in Interactive Logon Message Are Formatted As Carriage Returns

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=330618



823146 Windows 2000 Clients Do Not Correctly Display Logon Banners That Are

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823146



Adam Arndt




















"Jim NWTC" <james.lintner@nwtc.edu> wrote in message
news:62B7E1BA-E8D9-4192-964B-4659492B3FB0@microsoft.com...
> I have written the text for our interactive logon screen but am having
problems getting it all to display. I have found that the text will not
display after a "," is inserted in the message. There also seems to be a
limit to the number of charicters that can be on any one line. Are there
any guidelines to how to create one of these screens?