Re: Copying User Profiles

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:56:21 -0500

anonymous wrote:
> I have 10 computers in a lab setting. They are not in a
> domain or connected to each other. They are simply sitting
> behind a router and firewall and can access the Internet
> individually. I want to secure them using the local user
> accounts and profiles and policies. I would like to do it
> once as opposed to repeating everything 10 times. I know
> that you are supposed to set everything the way you like
> it on a single machine (source), and then copy a few files
> from the source machine to target machines. Does anyone
> know what and where those files are? Is there a good white
> paper/article/website on this issue that shows the process
> step by step? Any help would be appreciated.

Default User profile sounds like what you need.
Then perhaps a few registry settings/local policy settings.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=319974 

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