Mandatory profile Server 2012 r2

[Patrick]

Is anyone using mandatory profile with server 2012? I'm having an issue with mine. The profile is a copy of one that is posted on a thread here, it works fine, but when i customize it (change.dat - login - make changes - change back to .man) it seems to change the profile in some way for that specific user i've logged in as. If after modifying the profile you log in as a different user, non of the mapped drives we have show up. I think it's retaining the user name in the registry of the profile somewhere, causing the mapped drives to not apply.

 

Has anyone else experienced this? All i want to do is change the icon shortcuts to small, and get rid of the first run boxes for media player and word. Does anyone fancy sharing their profile for 2012 r2?

[Patrick]

No one else had the same issue with this?

[3s-gtech]

Hmmm. Generally, when I'm modifying a mandatory profile by logging on to it, I move it in AD so that no GPOs (user side anyway) apply to it. That's to limit issues like this, and I don't have this problem.

[Patrick]

Ok, i'll give that a go then. I'll log into the untouched clean profile and make some changes without any GP applying and see if that helps. I did open up the .dat in regedit and found the username i used to edit the profile littered all over the place. I replaced it with the a username variable but that just broke the whole thing. Thanks for the help!

[3s-gtech]

The username variable should work, can't remember which I used now but think it was %username%. I can check if you need.

[Patrick]

Big thanks to @3s-gtech for helping me out on this. Resolved.