XP Default user profiles...is there such a thing?!?

From: Michael Pressgrove (michael@web-jams.com)
Date: 06/12/02


From: "Michael Pressgrove" <michael@web-jams.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 04:02:30 -0700


Thanks for all the replys. I found it and every thing
worked as needed. Take care.
>-----Original Message-----
>Back in the day of NT4 ( which we are still using ) it
was
>easy for an admin to setup the 'default user' profile so
>that whenever a domain user logged on that machine, they
>would get the same desktop and user specific settings as
>all other users who logged on that particular machine.
>Now that we are moving to XP Pro, I do not see my old
>favorite 'default user' profile. Am I now forced to
>configure each and every user separately to have the same
>desktop and settings or is there a policy edit or regedit
>that lets me do this. Thanks for you help.
>.
>



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