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Sharepoint front end to domain login

I am interested in setting up a Sharepoint site on a 2003 domain with mostly Win 7 and XP desktops with the feature that instead of people getting a Windows look when they log into the domain they get the company Sharepoint screen with the option on the screen to go to their desktop. How would I do this?

Could I take it further such that they don't have a local desktop even on booting their computer - they get a Sharepoint screen and from there they log in to the domain but again just a Sharepoint screen?

In either case, does Sharepoint further allow me as the Sharepoint admin/network admin to allow the user to customize the Sharepoint 'desktop' he/she sees ?

Neil Russell

Sharepoint is not a desktop. It is a web portal. A very clever and complex one but all the same it is just a website.

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I understand that it's a portal - that it's IIS-based. What I am asking is how do I make it the first thing that users see when they log into their computers/domain and that if they want to go to the 'real desktop' they do that from some point on the Sharepoint page they see - e.g. they see an icon/link that says 'Windows desktop/my desktop' and that's how they get into regular Windows.

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Daryl Sirota

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Thanks for the tip.