FN-GM Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Does anyone know how to make a mandatory profile in Windows Vista? I know how to do it in XP/2000/2003 just rename ntuser.dat to ntuser.man but there is ntuser.dat.log1 & ntuser.dat.log2 file in Vista. One of them files is 0KB. Anyone got any suggestions please?
originofsymmetry Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 I'm on Vista at the moment and under my profile name I see a NTUSER.DAT file, are you?
FN-GM Posted July 14, 2007 Author Posted July 14, 2007 i see two files thats odd. Are you connected to VPN via vista?
originofsymmetry Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 I'm not currently connected to any networks with my machine sorry, may I ask why though
FN-GM Posted July 14, 2007 Author Posted July 14, 2007 ok thanks anyway does anybody else know please?
john Posted July 15, 2007 Posted July 15, 2007 Vista seems to need its own profile making and cannot talk to XP ones. I am using Vista at work and I now am the proud owner of two profiles, one for XP and below and one for Vista. For mandatory I suspect you are loading the XP one, but I think you need to make a brand new one and start from scratch.
FN-GM Posted July 15, 2007 Author Posted July 15, 2007 yes i understand that roaming profile users hav 2 one called "V2". so i would need to make another mandatory profile for vista. But how do i do it?
JoHimself Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 I'm doing this ATM actually. This is the document All the stuff on profile creation starts on scenario 2
ajbritton Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 yes i understand that roaming profile users hav 2 one called "V2". so i would need to make another mandatory profile for vista. But how do i do it? It will be the same way as for XP. - Log on as a user to create a profile then log off - Log on as a local Admin - Rename the NTUSER.DAT to NTUSER.MAN To make a supermandatory profile, rename the profile folder from 'username.v2' to 'username.man.v2'.
FN-GM Posted August 6, 2007 Author Posted August 6, 2007 oh right so in vista you rename the whole folder?
ajbritton Posted August 6, 2007 Posted August 6, 2007 Only if you want a 'supermandatory' profile. The difference being (supposedly), that if a 'mandatory' profiles fails to load, the user is still logged on but with a temporary profile which is dumped at logoff. If a user with a supermandatory profile tries to log on and the profile fails to load, the logon will not be permitted.
FN-GM Posted August 6, 2007 Author Posted August 6, 2007 oh right well i have the policy that if the profile fails to load it will log them off anyway so it doesn't matter either way
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