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Changing Mandatory Profiles

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by pysces83

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Hello,

All our PCs have roaming profiles, except for one which was mistakenly set to "mandatory" by my predecessor.

Can anyone tell me how to change the Mandatory profile to a roaming one?

We're running WinXP clients on an SBS2000 server.

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by liam

Hi,

Just in case you haven't solved this yet, you need to do the following.

Within the "profile" folder for the user you will find a file called NTUSER.MAN, change the file extension from .MAN to .DAT, this will then allow the profile to updated when the user logs off.

NTUSER.MAN is a hidden file so hidden files and folders will have to be shown in order to change this. You may also need to log on as a different user after restarting the PC if this file is locked.

Hope this helps.

by cmontana09

I am testing mandatory profiles and am looking to use them on our network. However, if we want a permanent change we need to edit them. Tried changing them from .MAN to .DAT and at next logon it took almost 9 mins to logon(An eternity!!). I rebooted 3 times and it did the same each time. Had to blow it away and start again.

If we want to make a change I dont want to have to start from scratch. I tried having a backup but my copy must have missed something. It seemed to copy everyithing (Files, Folders, permissions) ok. It just did not work. "Could not load your roaming profile"

Any help??

Thanks

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