Just a thought, but might it be worth investigating a 'Live CD' alternative?
In that case, rebooting puts the computer back as it was, with 100%
certainty.
The other advantage is that it deals effectively with the problem of
malware, which a mandatory profile doesn't necessarily deal with.
The 'Live' OS can be on a hard-dsk if replacing 1500 CD's for each upgrade
is a problem.
"Kam" wrote:
Hi,
We have public-access computers that log on with a mandatory roaming
profile, which we have set to 'self-delete' upon logoff--we use Group
Policies to put the local Users group into the Guest group. Microsoft's
default mechanism is to delete any Guest's profile at logoff. The 'master'
copy of the profile actually sits on the computer itself, C:\Profiles, so a
copy of it is made to C:\Documents and Settings\<username>. The profile is
.MAN.
RE: Mandatory TS user profiles... Admin rights ... I created my seperate GPO and user for my test enviorment just fine. ... able to create the share and copy over a good user profile.... Create a mandatory profile for the terminal server. ... This last KB references folder redirection within the ntuser.man registry ... (microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services)
Re: Mandatory Profiles problems ... I have succesfully created the Mandatory Profile in my test enviroment. ... What do you mean by this, "APPLICATIONS will not maintain the settings..."? ... They keep their settings from the ... (microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory)
RE: Mandatory TS user profiles... Admin rights ... Configure a dummy profile path via the GPO. ... Create a mandatory profile for the terminal server. ... Use the Computer Properties window to copy your user profile to a file share ... This last KB references folder redirection within the ntuser.man registry ... (microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services)
RE: Very slow Logins with WinXP Pro ... A mandatory profile is a shared profile, ...settings are saved at logoff and restored at logon - a mandatory profile does ... When we login to Windows XP Pro in a specific suite of PCs, ... (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
Re: Mandatory Profile and GPO ... What I can think off is that you got some registry settings in the mandatory profiles that overwrites the settings applied earlier by the group policy engine. ... Since they apply in the follow order: Policy Settings -> Profile Settings.... I created a user called est1 in 'Estimators' OU. ... 'Estimators' OU and assign them the mandatory profile.... (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
