Addressing User-Related Requirements

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

User-related requirements are essential considerations in network design. There are security requirements associated with almost every user-related design decision that you make. For example, who are your users? Do they log on from a computer that is connected to a network? Do they connect to the network while traveling or from home? Are they customers or business partners? Most importantly, how do you verify that your users are who they say they are?

Many chapters in the Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Deployment Kit require you to assess user and network requirements before you design or plan your implementation of the technologies and capabilities they cover. You should compile and evaluate these requirements across functional lines so that decisions you make in one area do not conflict with your requirements in other areas.

The following items are key security-related user requirements that every organization must address:

  • Keyboard logons

  • Access to resources

Other user-related requirements are not as universally applicable, though most organizations also implement security-related requirements in the following areas:

  • Remote network access

  • Wireless network access

  • Standard Client configurations

  • Encrypting File System (EFS)

  • Certificates for secure e-mail and smart card logons

  • Extranet access