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by cblann

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I know Novell has a product (Zen Works) that allows the sys admin to create a template for everywork station so that no matter what a user does the workstation will go back to pre defined settings at log in. My question is does microsoft have anything that does the same thing or can anyone recomend a good program for this?

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by avachon

Hi, on nt systems you can setup mandatory profiles for users. This is basically a roaming profile in which the .dat extension is renamed .man While a user is logged in, he/she may "customize" the station, but those changes are discarded as soon as the user logs off. More information, as well as the specifics about mandatory profiles may be found on microsoft's website (Knowledge base and technet). Look under mandatory profiles, user profiles, roaming profiles. There's actually a multi-part series of articles concerning user profiles and system policies on the website. This should come up when searching the above phrases. I hope this helps.

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