Profiles in general, I find very damned confusing. I?m reading up on them now but i cant find the answers i need. Maybe someone knows…..
We’re planning a rollout to win2k. We used to have win98 connected to a winNT 4.0 server. Under win98 we installed everything with an administrator account that had access to a software dump. Then we logged on as the person we were configuring it for and put the finishing touches. ALL the programs worked fine. The profiles matched perfectly.
Now on to win2k. We decided to do the same. Log on as administrator into the domain and install everything. Oh boy. Our BPCS IBM/as400 client access programs stopped working including other programs as well etc etc.
So we read in a SYSPREP whitepaper by microsoft that we should “Create a local user account with Administrator Privileges and log on as that user to install and customize applications, such as office 2000, business-specific applications and other applications or settings that will be common for all workstations” (because were going to use norton ghost to image our computers. we named this local user “installer” and did as Microsoft suggested.)
“Once you have customized the system, log off as that user and log back on as administrator. Then copy that user profile to the DEFAULT USERS folder.
Fine, we do that. But IBM BPCS still doesn?t work with a couple other programs. We are forced to make users into POWER USERS and we don?t want to do that, but right now we have no choice.
Does default user settings also go for administrators logging in? Will all the settings done with “installer” go for EVERY user logging in from now on?
Most importantly how can we make some programs work without making people power users? I’ve scanned many a web site and have yet to find anything.
Thanks for the help guys.
-G
NTadmin
MS will pay for its arrogance one day 🙂