MikeR

[rant] Yes, I know I have to learn to use the new 2k3 environment properly. I mainly have only done NT4 domains before, and mixed mode in 2k server environment). The work I now have has quite recently upgraded to 2k3 environment (all XP&2k3), and I have to make things work somehow before the students come back from holiday (next monday 8O ). I'll investigate it later on though, even if I'm not putting the new Default User-profile in use. I'll have to think of that, I'm pretty sure that I'm not working here after new year, the unemployment awaits...sigh. Uh oh, better not get started on that [/rant] Thanks for the guidance, the thing I've yet to understand from that, is that will it affect the teachers using the computers, and more importanly allow us to easily update the profile with new shortcuts to all users desktop etc. without students messing things up? (we have some different software in different classrooms). Teachers can mess their own profile up, we'll just wipe it and they start clean. Also, what rights would I have to give to redirected start menu and desktop (preferrably I wouldn't put those in place if not necessarily needed), and the new Default User profile on server? Is the NETLOGON share on domain controller or can I put it in our fileserver? Because it it's DC, it's pretty much no go. I'd be glad if anyone can give me another push in the right direction. We have a 2k3 server book, and even it talked about mandatory profiles (must be pretty oldschool book).

Hi, and sorry for making a new topic! I found a gazillion bits about redirecting folders but didn't find answer for this: We have mandatory user profile for all our students, and they have a home drive on network share. It is currently set up so that My Documents was manually moved to K: drive (their homedir) and updated to the mandatory profile. I read that you guys are using GPO to redirect the My Documents to their homedir. It made me think that is there something wrong in the way it is set up here? :oops:

Thanks mark! First classroom went fine, I'll try the other one later.

Hi! Thought I'd ask here. I must install new software for 2 classrooms (namely Frontpage for both and Photoshop for other). We have a mandatory profile for all users. So what I must do, is to copy the user profile to a new share (and rename ntuser.man to .dat) and login the test user from the classroom where I install both packages and make all the settings to both programs and copy shortcuts for all users. Then make a backup from the old profile and copy the new one over the original and rename .dat to .man. I wanna make sure that it doesn't matter if I create settings for software that doesn't exist in another classroom (I'm pretty sure it won't). Is this procedure correct? And can I do the copying from Windows Explorer on the server?