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How to Setup Mandatory Profiles

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by kingofthenerds

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Hi All,

I have a windows 2000 server and windows 2000 clients.

I have set up a mandatory profile that is working perfectly. The only problem is that I have two different PC labs both using the same profile.

Now I have have updated one of the labs and now the profile will no longer work properly in the lab I haven't updated.

Is there a way to setup the network so that depending on the start of the computer name, will determine what profile the user recieves?

Eg. One room is called T2 with the computers as T201, T202, T203 - T225.
One room is called T3 with the same computer name setup.

Can anyone give me a script or something that would say
IF computername=T2* load \\server\mandatoryprofile\profileA
IF computername=T3* load \\server\mandatoryprofile\profileB

Something like the above would be perfect.

Thanks for your help

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by dryflies

OK, you can do a logon script based upon the host name. I am not so sure about the mandatory profile part. Profiles are associated with each user and are not designed to be associated with a computer. However, a way around this would be to put T2 computers in one OU and the T3 computers in another OU. From there you can define group policy for those Organization Units so that different policies are applied based on the computer you are logged onto. There are elements of the profile that can be changed based upon the host computer. Let me know more precisely what you want and I will look at it.
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by kingofthenerds

As i said, i have 2 labs of 25 windows 2000 machines. One lab called T2 with computers T201, T202 etc and the other is called T3 with computers T301, T302 etc.

I am installing different software in each room and the profiles obivously differ from room to room, so i need to find a way to use the seperate mandatory profiles I have created, one for T2 and the other for T3.

If i could have a student logon to a computer in T2 and recieve that profile based on the fact the they are using a machine starting with T2 that would be great, vice versa for T3.

So as I said earlier if you can think of anyone to do this, e.g login script, group policy I will be happy to try it.

Thanks

by techkid

You need to use local profiles. Copy the T2 profile you made to the appropriate "all users" profile on the T2 machines. Do the same for the T3 computers with the T3 profile you created.

Remove any reference to roaming profiles in AD U&C

by techkid

copy the profile to the "default user" profile as well. don't forget to change the ntuser.dat to ntuser.man

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