Guide to editing the logonrules.xml file

If you don’t have a good XML editor available, I highly recommend using one of the free Visual Studio Express editions available from Microsoft. A good choice would be Visual Basic 2008 Express.

The Visual Baisc 2008 Express editor (and the other available) provides Intellisens that makes it a very easy to edit the logonrules.xml file, since I have provided an XML Document Type Definition that specifies how the logonrules.xml file should be structured.

Here is a few examples of Intellisens at work in Visual Studio:

1. List of available action is displayed

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2. Available attribute is displayed for the current action

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3. Remaining attributes is displayed for the current action

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As an added bonus, the XML Document Type Definition at the top of the logonrules.xml also makes it possible for the logon script to verify the syntax of the logonrules.xml file.

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