Aministering security centre from Group Policy

I have a windows 2000 network but will soon be introducing a few XP machines. They will have SP2 on them and I wonderd if I can administer the Security centre from group policy - mainly by turning it off as we already have adequate firewall protection with PIX and ISA, or should I just leave it alone?

Thanks

 

Grunty - I'm not really sure what you are asking. Could you ask again using different words.

 

Sorry, I will try and make it a little clearer, I am not entirely sure myself if this is something I should be worrying about anyway.

I administer a windows 2000 domain which has 70 workstations, and some servers. I make extensive use of group policies for drive mapping, logon scripts, screensaver timeouts etc.

The only machine that has XP is my own, and when I installed SP2 on it I disabled security center because it was messing up Internet Explorer, and we have a PIX firewall, and proxy/ISA server for security anyway.

I am about to replace 24 of our machines with new ones and plan to install XP Sp2 on them.

My questions are:

Can I disable the XP security from Group Policy?

Do I need to?

Is XP security set in the user or the computer profiles?

Hope this makes things a little clearer

Thanks

 

By going to google, and using xp sp2 gpo as a search string. I found this link as the second hit.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/mangxpsp2/mngdepgp.mspx

Look for the Security-Related Policy Settings section, which will answer all your questions. You should read the whole article, as you probably want to disable the firewall as well.

 

The microsoft page and the other links that google threw up seem to be just what I need.

Many thanks