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    preparing for first use

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    by iamobi1 ·

    I just took over administering for a small lab at work that has been up and running for about a year, however today everyone came out of the wood works and told me this problem and that problem that the labs been having for a year and I have spent all day putting out ?fires?. But theirs one thing that I just can?t seem to figure out, every application that launches starts with a preparing for first launch, which makes saving their changes impossible, for them to keep their work they have been emailing it to themselves. Now this is just unsat, does anyone have any ideas why this might happen?

    It?s a windows environment with only one server with 2003 running and a bunch of workstations on their own little domain, and their doesn?t seem to be any odd group policy setting [which was my first thought, but I couldn?t find anything] or rules in place. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    • #2519282

      Clarifications

      by iamobi1 ·

      In reply to preparing for first use

      Clarifications

    • #2518199

      First time

      by p.j.hutchison ·

      In reply to preparing for first use

      Are the workstations using mandatory profiles?

      • #2518138

        i dont think so

        by iamobi1 ·

        In reply to First time

        i’m not sure, every user is setup in active directory, and i believe they have a roaming profile.

        how would i check to see if the workstations are using mandatory profiles?

        • #2518074

          Profiles

          by p.j.hutchison ·

          In reply to i dont think so

          Mandator profiles are used when the ntuser.dat file in each user profile is named ntuser.man, so each user session starts with a known clean profile on logon.

        • #2517882

          mandatory profile

          by iamobi1 ·

          In reply to Profiles

          i just checked it out, their not using mandatory profiles. any other idea why they might have this issue?

    • #2520698

      found it

      by iamobi1 ·

      In reply to preparing for first use

      The last IT set all the accounts up as GUESTS!! well that solves the problem of why they couldn’t make any changes…. now i feel stupid

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