Configuration of Windows 2000 Operational Consoles and Accounts for the CERN Accelerator Control Rooms

The Windows 2000 configuration project was launched to set up the operational consoles, accounts, deployment procedures and packages of accelerator controls software on the new Windows 2000 operational consoles in the SPS Accelerator Control Room, the SPS surface buildings and the SPS experimental zones, in an automatic and reproducible manner. The configuration of the operational console environment is achieved by a combination of Windows profile settings for the Operations user account and group policy settings applied to security groups. A major restriction for all operational consoles (being located either in the CERN Accelerator Control Rooms or in one of the SPS surface buildings), is the fact that only a small set of users are allowed to perform actions in a restricted domain, in order to ensure secure access to the Accelerator Controls application software.