Best Practices for "temporary" accounts in a Windows server environment?

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Are there any best practices for "temporary worker" accounts in a Windows server environment?

We have a couple of contractors joining the organization temporarily. They only need access to a few folders.

Aside from joining them to the "Domain Guests" group and granting them access only to the folders specified. Are there any other issues to be aware of?

We are in a Windows Server 2003 domain environment.

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