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More info?)
hi
no we are not using roaming profiles. Does roaming profiles need to be
configured under each user property as well? If so I am trying to avoifd
doing that and do everything at the GPO.
Also, I want the lab machines locked down. WE have a mapped drive for each
user that logs on and they should be able to save to their own mapped home
drive (they get this via vbscript) in a goup policy. All profiles are
currently local. So I might have to consider scheduling a script to delete
all local profiles if this becomes an issue.
Thanks
"lforbes" <DoNotEmail@WindowsForumz.com> wrote in message
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> "tony" wrote:
> > ok. I have lab machines that I want all users to be able to
> > access. But I do
> > not want any local profiles created. So I think mandatory
> > profiles will work
> > here. But these users also have their local machines they log
> > onto and I do
> > not want them to get a mandatory profile.
> >
> > both lab machines and user machines are on the same domain.
> >
> >
> > any help appreciated
> >
> > "lforbes" <UseLinkToEmail@WindowsForumz.com> wrote in message
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> > > "tony" wrote:
> > > > Is there anyway I can set a mandatory profile for a
> > user to
> > > > only a certain
> > > > machine?
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > No. Profiles are User based. They are set in account
> > properties.
> > > However, you can setup a Profile to be "mandatory" like with
> > Group
> > > Policy restrictions.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Lara
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> Hi,
>
> Do your users use Roaming Profiles at all or do they just use local
> ones for their own machine? I would recommend just switching to
> Roaming for all (regular roaming) and set Group Policy to delete
> roaming profiles on logoff and not to cache roaming profiles.
>
> You can then set restrictions with Group Policy for those machines.
>
> Basically Mandatory Profiles are roaming but they are per user so once
> a user has one, it goes everywhere.
>
> Why are you worried about local profiles being created? If you have a
> lab setting where do they save?
>
> If you are worried about the local profiles taking up space you need
> to know that even mandatory profiles cache locally even with all the
> settings telling it not to. I was given the following batch file to
> delete all local profiles except the ones I want. However it needs to
> be a startup script.
> For spacing. The new lines start at "set" and "for" with
> everything else just wrapping.
>
> @echo off
> pushd "C:\Documents and Settings"
>
> set Exempt=*Administrator* *All Users* *Default User* *LocalService*
> *NetworkService*
> for /d %%a in (*.*) do echo %Exempt% | find /i "*%%a*" > nul ||
> rmdir /s /q "%%a"
>
> popd
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lara