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by ereis

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I work tech support for a company containg appx. 300 users. We run mostly NT servers with a slow migration towards 2000 desktops, the rest are still NT. We do not use roaming profiles only local. Everytime we add users to a computer we have to manually configure a new profile, consisting of drive mappings, printer mappings, outlook settings, IE settings and eplorer settings. I know a batch file could setup printers and drive mappings but how could I make a template for the other programs. (Registry hack, third party software, etc.) I welcome all ideas.

Erich

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by vagab0nd

All these things can be made through creating a single Default User profile.
To do this setup needed profile on one of PCs with all needed settings than copy it to Default User (right click My Computer -> User Profiles -> Select profile just created and press Copy to -> Browse to Documents and Settings\Default User folder and click OK.
Next time a new user logons he will get needed environment.
If you want to duplicate it on a lot of PCs - just copy this Default User folder to network and distribute to all PCs (make sure you copied ALL files and folders including hidden ones).
Note that Default User folder appears only after first logon of user different from local Administrator.

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