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Is there any way that I can enable and start a specific service on a number of XP SP2 computers through a Server 2003 AD Policy?<br />
Basically we have a Server 2003 domain with XP SP2 clients and I would like to start the Messenger (net send) service on all of the clients automatically through the AD either with a policy setting or via a script. 
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Is there any way that I can enable and start a specific service on a number of XP SP2 computers through a Server 2003 AD Policy?
Basically we have a Server 2003 domain with XP SP2 clients and I would like to start the Messenger (net send) service on all of the clients automatically through the AD either with a policy setting or via a script. 

Starting services automatically on remote XP SP2 Server 2003 Clients

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).