Scottyboy99

Chelmsford College | Vacancies

Yep the profile deletes on log off, and it's definitely a mandatory profile

Morning all, Our students use a mandatory profile, the start menu layout xml applies and works fine with no missing tiles on first logon to a machine. If that student logs off and logs back on the same machine, or any other student logs on for that matter, all tiles are missing on the start menu. Reboot the machine and again - first log on after reboot is fine, from then on it has missing tiles until the machine reboots again. I hope this makes sense, has anyone else come across this? Many Thanks Scott

Hi All, I have had some spare time for a change, to finally crack Windows 10 Mandatory profiles, ready for our academic roll out for September. I am going to share this with everyone, in the hope that others find it a successful method too. This method allows a quick reliable log on, with start menu tiles intact on every log on, at least in my experience. I plan on doing a proper write up with screenshot at some point soon. Here it goes: Firstly, make sure the computer you are using to create this profile has Delete Cached Roaming Profiles disabled, so the cache stays intact on the C: Drive. This can be enabled again after this process if finished. Create a dummy student account username: dummystudent, and give the student a roaming profile. Log the dummy student on and set up the profile as you wish, e.g. expanding the file explorer tabs, setting up start menu tiles etc. Once happy, log the dummy student off and log on to your own network admin account. Locate the roaming profile you have just set up, load the .DAT hive in Regedit and export to a .reg file. Open this .reg file in Notepad and find and replace dummystudent with %username%. This is as per most mandatory profile instructions. Save the .reg and Merge it back into the hive. Set the Hive permissions to Everyone - Full Control and unload the hive. Copy the above profile to your Mandatory Profile share, making sure permissions are appropriate. ie. student accounts can read the profile share and contents. put .V5 as an extension and rename NTUSER.DAT to NTUSER.MAN. Now that local cached profile outlined above, copy the Local folder within AppData (C:\users\dummystudent\AppData\Local) to the AppData within the mandatory profile on the share. There you go, a working mandatory profile. No black screen on login, no dodgey start menu, fast log in time. Cheers Scott

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Hi everyone I created a Mandatory profile using the method above, all working ok apart from the pinned taskbar shortcuts (see screenshot below), Once logged on they appear as blank pages and only work if I right-click on them to launch the program.. Not ideal. Has anyone else come across this? Cheers

Working well here now.. can I ask how you removed the Cortana/Search bar from the taskbar for end-users? Cheers,

Restarted the PC and it updated itself, and killed the classic start menu software.. Argh... all part of the testing process I suppose :-(

I started off with the one you posted, now i'm creating my own.. Logged on locally and set up the start menu settings and exported the registry keys. Converted them to XML and imported into the GPO. Going to test shortly Cheers

Only problem I have at the moment is some of the GPO settings are not applying.. for instance i've set Control Panel to not be displayed but it isn't budging..

Testing so far has proved very successful! Changed the GPO to assign student's photo as user picture: \\server\share\%username%.jpg Nice. - - - Updated - - - Testing so far has proved very successful! Changed the GPO to assign student's photo as user picture: \\server\share\%username%.jpg Nice.

Well, I know what i'll be doing on Monday... Thanks for posting

Thanks for that, unfortunately this didn't solve the problem this end :-( Starting to get a bit fed up.. Might stick with Windows 7 a bit longer

Thanks for the info, we have these permissions in place for the home drive and the mandatory profile itself, is there another location that needs these permissions? Cheers,

We currently have roaming AppData redirected to the users Home drive Cheers