IT Support Services and Tips by ZONE-X

If you have a legal disclaimer for your network, this article may prove useful… We ran into the issue of having the disclaimer cut-off on several of our upgraded Windows 2003 Small Business Server machines. Apparently there is a character limit per line. See tips below…

Troubleshooting

If you use a Group Policy setting to configure Windows Server to display a message when users log on, the operating system writes the registry changes that are described in the preceding section. However, the same registry values appear in the following registry key:

You can set the registry values described in the preceding section to this key to get the same results as if you configured a Group Policy setting. However, if you set the registry values in both registry keys, the values in the following registry key take precedence:

Note If you do not use carriage returns in your display message, the maximum number of characters that you can add to the logon box is 512. If you add carriage returns, you can add up to 2048 characters (512 characters per line).

See the original article at: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310430