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Are you referring to this procedure? How to customize the default local user profile when you prepare an image of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Buggy...damn it.. ....better use GPO than GPP to speed up logon times then? We use software such as Autocad, Adobe, probably some keys would need to be fixed.... What about the procedure in this video?

Yes it's a brand new domain... It would be interesting to know why MS may recommend to move away from mandatory profiles. It seems that a single mandatory profile would be easier to mantain and have much faster login/logout times than multiple, nominative roaming profiles for a situation like this one.

@Steve21 In fact you're right about sysprep, let's forget it. They already read/write to our SMB server but they have to be able to save certain huge (yyy MB), non private files to a local folder ("C:\LocalStore"). @steve The network is not that reliable so unfortunately we have to avoid super-mandatory profiles, a cached copy is important. The shortcut seems a good idea.

Hello, We don't want our Windows7 student lab users to change the desktop icons, screensaver, or anything else. And if they change it, we want it reset at next login. They should be able to permanently store files locally but just in one predefined folder in the root of the hd. We are going to set up a basic server2008r2 domain. We may create a single, mandatory "student" profile that would be used simultaneously by all students. But unfortunately it seems that the official MS procedure (sysprep) is time consuming and impratical in case we'd need to modify this default profile later. Would the best solution be to create a "basic" and un-restricted mandatory profile and apply a set of group policy preferences to it? Thanks, Regards