[298] in Kakapo Windows Team
Re: Update on Windows Server pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Calzaretta)
Tue Feb 3 11:20:06 2004
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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 11:20:02 -0500
To: "Thomas L. Thornton" <tomt@mit.edu>, knyzio@mit.edu
From: Joseph Calzaretta <saltine@MIT.EDU>
Cc: pismere-team@mit.edu, kakapo@mit.edu, isweb@mit.edu
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At 04:57 PM 2/2/2004 -0500, Thomas L. Thornton wrote:
> > ...
> > *group_policy_intro.html - the "tone" of some of the underlined text
> > could probably be softened a bit. If you would like me to take a
> > pass at doing this, I'd be happy to do so. The rest of the content
> > on the page is great, so the comments in question are quite a
> > contrast. I'm not sure this benefits users. You might want to
> > consider swapping underlines for italics, since underlined text is
> > typically used *only* in cases of linked text.
>
>I am open to content *and* formatting changes, but the originator of
>this, Joe Calzaretta, may have other wishes. Note that the
>underlining has a specific meaning, distinct from simple emphasis
>phrases that appear elsewhere. So, use maybe a different style for
>our divergence from the MCSE document, but different from simple
>italics.
>
>Joe, unless you let Robin know that her editing is unwelcome, say by
>Wednesday afternoon, I recommend that Robin should try the changes.
The original intended audience of this document was ops@mit.edu (so,
internal to IS). I don't know if it, as it stands, is appropriate for
container admins or domain users in general. The underlined material was
my additions to an MCSE training kit about group policy (originally this
was just in a different color. Perhaps they should be non-underlined, in a
different color, and preceded by something like "Win.Mit.Edu-specific:").
Feel free to change the tone of these comments, as well as that of the
section called "Additional Group Policy Information" which was not part of
any Microsoft training kit.
As for the content of the document, some of it is a little out-of-date, but
it's mostly fine.
The audience though... I'd say it's mostly useful for domain admins and
container admins.
> > ...
> > *group_policy.html - same "tone" comment as above; also same
> > underline vs. italics comment.
>
>Here I believe Joe would recommend moving *some* of this material to
>an area for a domain admin audience.
>
>Right Joe? If so, I should get details from Joe and make a second
>pass through the file before Kris makes a third.
This entire document is really intended only for domain admins. The
comments were additions I made later for ops people, and I think I need to
rewrite the whole document anyway to reflect recent changes in the
SelfMaint code. Container admins might have some use for this document,
just to understand how things work. But it doesn't really mention anything
they have control over.
Again, I don't care if the document is editied for tone.
> > *help.html-is it possible to get a smaller -- and more legible --
> > screenshot for the first image?
>
>Not easily, but possible. Can I ask the team for a volunteer?
It's easy enough. I've replaced
http://web.mit.edu/is/topics/windows/server/winmitedu/images/logon.gif with
a (hopefully) nicer-looking image. (The old image is still there as
http://web.mit.edu/is/topics/windows/server/winmitedu/images/logonOLD.gif.)
Make sure to only display the new image at its default resolution (417x270)
or it will end up looking as ugly as the old image.
--Joe
