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by jeffreywashington

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I'm doing a rather nice project ... thru a sorry temp agcy. But anyway there an issue that I believe can be solved. (In a network environment with roaming profiles. Its still possible to assign mandatory profile on a local machine for a particular user.) Am I correct? and if so could you give me the best way to handle approaching the client with factual info. to prove my point. It's been years since dealing with profiles. But I believe I'm right.

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by rob miners

If the user profile already exists change the .DAT extension to .MAN. Make sure that the profile path points to the user.

Rob

by jeffreywashington

so if I change it at the local machine this will not effect the roaming profile at all?

by rob miners

not at the local machine. A Mandatory Profile is a Roaming Profile. A standard Roaming Profile will allow changes. A Mandatory Profile stops the User from making permanent changes. When the User logs off the changes that were made are not kept in the Mandatory Profile. IE: Desktop Background.

by jeffreywashington

Here's the lay-out It's a College environment and I want the Instructors to be able to Install needed software on the primary PC and possible there teaching PC. But not any others in the network. So would I make .MAN on just those two machine ?

by rob miners

Create a folder on the file server in your profile folder called ProfNT.Man

Create a standard user account on the file server. This is your template. You could call it Seed or Root. Point it to the ProfNT.Man folder for the profile.

Logon to a workstation as the new user and set it up as you want it for your users. When you are happy with what you want log off and then log back on to double check.

Log off and go to the file server.
1. On the server ,Start "regedt32".
2. From the "Window' menu choose "HKEY_USERS".
3. Next, select"Registry" from the menu and then "Load Hive".
4. Browse and select the ntuser.dat from the folder called ProfNT.Man.
5. Enter "auser" as the name for the key.
6. Highlight "auser" in the pane on the left.
7. From the "Security" menu choose"Permissions".
8. Give "Everyone" Full Control and tick "REplace Permissions on Existing Subkeys".
9. Click OK.
10. Once completed, ensure "auser" is highlighted and choose "Unload Hive" from the "REgistry Menu".

Close regedt32.
Navigate to the ProfNT.Man folder and rename ntuser.dat to ntuser.man

Direct your new users to the ProfNT.Man folder for their profiles.

I have tried to keep it as simple as i can. If you do not have a file sever Microsoft have a program to install on clients that will give you more control. Shared Computer Toolkit.

As far as I know you cannot have a local user as a mandatory profile.

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