spacemanvic

You da man! I will need to look at this script closer before trying it out, but this looks like what I've been looking for.

1) Where can I find the scripts section? I've gone through a few of the links on the left without success. 2) A student would have to reset their preferred printer every time they logged in, correct? The teaching staff kiboshed that idea. As it is, a student sets up a printer and that printer is their default printer on that computer in that room. Is there a way to keep it like this but limit the amount of profiles that get stored locally? I have my structure set up like this: Students are in three seperate OUs (Elementary, Middle and High). Their machines are all in the same OU. Students can then be members of multiple groups (math, yearbook, newspaper etc). The members of the groups then have login scripts which map drives to resources needed by their respective group (the log in scripts are in their individual User accounts). All the machines in the school must be made accessable to all of the students. Labs must be made available to all of the students in the district. Students must be able to set up printers that are local to the machines they are logged in at, and be able to access remote printers if needed. The machines that they are logged in at must retain their chosen default printer after log off. Remember, any student must be able to log in to any of the districts 385 machines and be able to print to any of the 63 printers. Should I just stick with redirected folders and be content?

well, using GPO's I've locked down the desktops so that they cant customize anything. My goal is to eliminate the growing local profiles on the machines to one profile.

How do you handle network printers with a mandatory profile? A student could have at least 12 printers associated with his/her account. Wouldnt a man. prof. make a printer setting mandatory?

I will giv ethis a go during CHristmas break.

well, here lies an impediment: Labs and classrooms in any of the three schools (Elementary, Middle and High) have different images for the different software that is on those computers. If I place a mandatory profile on my users in AD, that profile will get loaded no matter where they sit. This would cause a problem, I think, because not every classroom or lab has the same software installed on it. Is there a way to have different profiles for each lab? A profile on the machine rather than following the user?

ok, this was a trick: I deleted the program. Looked for any SUN fodlers, deleted them, rebooted the system. Reinstalled Java, rebooted, and all is well. Damnit. I have to do this to 365 machines. Minus the 22 my second guy got to.

Ric, your providing more help than you know Yes, it has me at a loss as to how the app is sitting there, I am seeing it, but it isnt running. Another query, it is running on other machines in the domain, just not a bunch. no clue as to why at this point. Reinstalls, reboots, nothing seems to work at this time.

Ric: Where's the wiki?

yeah, reinstall doesnt do it.....

Subject says it all Win 2k3 AD domain, XP SP2 clients. All clients have user access only. I am using redirected folders only now. So local profiles get placed on the workstations. This is causing an issue especially when running delprof. Any help would be appreciated.....

Sorry Im using redirected folders. A profile is cached on the machines at logon. I would like to look at using man. profiles, but can you use them with redirected folders? I am running an AD domain, win2k3 servers and all xp sp2 clients. Problem arose this AM after last nights delprofs. Of course favorites and printers were deleted, now it seems that Java has been broken. can someone explain how this is so? I am running in circles unfortunately. One man IT department for 400+ pcs and 140 printers and 8 servers. I have one person who handles some apps, he is now installing some apps for me as I type, but he doesnt play with MS OS's. Im beginning to think I shouldnt either LOL.....I am burning my MCSE certs now (NT4, 2000, 2k3). Part of the copnsole report looks like thus: load: class jreCheck.class not found. java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: jreCheck.class at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.io.IOException: open HTTP connection failed. at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ... 10 more

OK, was successful in running delprof on all my PCs YAY!! BUT, now Java doesnt run on anyones machine. Is there a way to fix this en masse? Any help would be appreciated :oops:

for /f %a in (computers.txt) do (start delprof.exe /I /Q /C:\\%a) Yup, and add %%a in place of %a for it to run as a bat

ok, I go this to work for me: for /f %a in (computers.txt) do (delprof.exe /I /Q /C:\\%a) I extracted PC names from AD into a text file, cleaned it up, then ran the above command. BUT, it takes forever. Is there a way to get multiple instances to run at the same time? I think using the START command would help, but then what would I need to change in the above command to get it to work as a bat?