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Mandatory Desktop Icon Layout

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by grandeland

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I am attempting to have the desktop icon layout mandatory for all user profiles local or domain. Therefore, when a user logs in they will see the Icon's arranged in a certain patten. Instead icons being vertical they will be horizontal. Would this be accomplished through GPO or Mandatory Profile Settings?

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by wizard-09

Arange them as you would like them to appear in the folder redirection folder for the desktop icons were the icons are being pulled from this should work, have you tired that.

Don't think a GPO will do that for you.

Hope that helps

by grandeland

Maybe I'm not following your line of thought because I can pull up several articles that "reference" using GPO for folder redirection configurations and icon layout. But they aren't the solutions I'm looking for exactly. I simply don't recall if this is done in GPO specifically or through Mandatory Profiles or through SysPrep when creating an image. This is going to be used for my domain laptop users. They will be logging in using their domain user accounts.

by tmalo627

You probably want to change the extension of their profile from .dat to .man. The .man extension will prevent changes from being saved to their profile when they log off.

by grandeland

Thank you for that post but what if I don't want to lock down the whole profile I simply want to manage the desktop environment?

by tmalo627

To my knowledge, that's the only way to control the desktop environment is to use the mandatory profile. If you still want them to have their own "My Documents" folders, you might want to use this in conjunction with the Folder redirection option mentioned in the first post. This is something I haven't tried, but at least worth a shot.

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