Re: Force users to use the same profile

From: Megladon (Megladon_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/28/05


Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:37:03 -0800

How do I configure account to use a mandatory profile?

"Roger Abell" wrote:

> The only supported (and supportable) way to do that is
> to configure all accounts to use a mandatory profile.
> That would mean exactly the same profile for all users,
> and no way for any user to change it.
>
> Use of one profile with more than one account when it is
> not a mandatory profile leads to a number of subtle (and
> some not so) problems, not to mention it being confusing
> to one person when they log in and find things are different
> due to what the last user did to change thing.
>
> --
> Roger Abell
> Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)
> MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
> "Megladon" <Megladon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A4769423-3DC5-4414-AFC2-F4AA3F44CEB2@microsoft.com...
> > Is it possible to force all users to use the same profile on a Windows
> 2000
> > computer? The computer is in a domain environment and there's about 70
> > different people that will probably user it from one time to another.
> > Basically I have some scanner software which needs to be configured with
> each
> > & every profile. It would be nice to do it once and force all users to use
> > that same profile.
>
>
>



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