Win8 Mandatory Profile - Copy

[petben]

I am trying to create a mandatory profile for students in Windows 8. I have created the profile but (logged in as admin) the 'Copy To..' button is always greyed out in User Profiles. In Win7 I use a great tool called 'Windows Enabler 1.1' but this doesn't work in Windows 8. How are we meant to copy a profile to a network share now then?

[Wirral_Wonderer]

I came across this the other week whilst trying to setup RDS on 2012 for staff Howto create a Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8 Mandatory Profile | Jeroen Tielen but lost my way with it so gave up!

 

From what I could see there was not much information on how to do it.

 

Good luck!

[Jumphog]

I'm afraid I don't have an answer for you, but am battling myself with the same stuff and shocked at how hard Microsoft are making it for us to love them! :/

[Manny21555]

Hi Guys,

 

Might sound silly but did you run the program as an administrator? (I had the same issue but this worked or me).

 

Cheers,

Manny

[SYNACK]

You may not be able to use them anyway: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-8/113432-windows-8-modern-apps-metro-mandatory-profiles-no-go-area.html

 

but you can specify a custom start screen with an XML in GPO for users

Customize Windows 8.1 Start Screens by Using Group Policy

Customising Windows 8.1 Start Screen Layout with Group Policy

[pow]

I'm using this method for a perfect Windows 8.1 Mandatory Profile. Just bash a machine up with nothing on, not joined to the domain or anything, mess around with the profile until it's as you want it (So I uninstalled all the apps, arranged the start menu as I wanted it etc, sysprep it with copyprofile=true, load it up, log in and copy the Default Profile (allow everyone access to it) to your network location. Change NTUser.dat to NTUser.man and point your AD users to it.

 

Gerry Hampson ConfigMgr: Creating a Windows 7 Mandatory profile