Mandatory profiles in XP / Windows 7 environment

[3s-gtech]

There was a thread on here about it I think, but I believe that linked solution on petri is the method I used. Working fine with IE8, Windows 7 etc.

[Rozzer]

I setup a loop back policy for my windows 7 machines and set the profile option in Group Policies for that machine group. This may only work for me because I do not use the profile path option in AD for XP or Windows 7.

Ross

[sted]

I setup a loop back policy for my windows 7 machines and set the profile option in Group Policies for that machine group. This may only work for me because I do not use the profile path option in AD for XP or Windows 7.

Ross

oh it will override that but EVERYONE admin/users will get the settings so it can be a pita when you need to do admin work on it and say windows key+ e dosent work etc

[MaXiM]

So let me get this right. I go into the User account in AD and just type in the profile path: staffuser

and this will serve both my staffuser.man and staffuser.man.v2 ?

[sted]

So let me get this right. I go into the User account in AD and just type in the profile path: staffuser

and this will serve both my staffuser.man and staffuser.man.v2 ?

no you type in staffuser.man

[MaXiM]

I've tried that before typing staffuser.man but when I go to log into a windows 7 machine it complains. Must be missing something..

[alan-d]

I've just set ours up for testing and so far it seems to be working as it should.

Create (or use existing) a folder where your profiles are currently. eg mandatory-profile
Into that folder copy the existing mandatory profile eg staff.man and rename it to staff.man.v2
In the same folder place another copy of the staff.man profile.
In AD point the user to server\profiles\mandatory-profile\staff.man

This should allow users to log into both XP and Win 7 without problems.

[3s-gtech]

I've tried that before typing staffuser.man but when I go to log into a windows 7 machine it complains. Must be missing something..

Have you actually created the .man.v2 profile path in your network profiles location, and is it definitely working? There are several methods for making this profile - the MS approved route involves sysprep and the default profile.

[sted]

Have you actually created the .man.v2 profile path in your network profiles location, and is it definitely working? There are several methods for making this profile - the MS approved route involves sysprep and the default profile.

and have you renamed ntuser.dat to ntuser.man