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Hi, i had the same problem. I have to set up a P.C. classroom for students with mandatory profiles without the use of an active directory domain server. I needed to setup and customize a LOCAL mandatory profile on a sample machine for replication. I wrote some notes to describe the working solution, in italian, below an attempt to translate it (i apologize for my poor english) 1) login as an user of group 'Administrators' 2) From the "User Management" create user 'student' with password 'student' and set: -Password never expires -User can not change password 3) Start Menu> Change User> log in as user 'student' 4) "Disconnect" 5) Create a new folder in C:\Users\ and call it with a name like 'bloccato.v2'. 6) Login as Administrator and copy the profile "DEFAULT" (the default system profile) to the newly created folder using the System Settings menu Advanced> User Profiles Settings> BUTTON "Copy to ...". IMPORTANT! Before you copy use the "Change" to allow the group 'Authenticated Users' use of the new profile. This operation overwrites the entire contents of the folder 'bloccato.v2' with the content of the default profile, but allows 'Authenticated Users' to use it. 7) Menu "User Management"> user "student"> "Profile" - enter in the "Profile Path" box the path of the folder 'bloccato.v2' remembering that the folder must be specified omitting the extension. v2 - so the path becomes C:\Users\bloccato 8) "Switch User" 9) login again as "student" 10) customize the desktop settings, the home page of the browsers, the proxy, and anything else you need blocked. 11) "Disconnect" 12) go back in as user 'student' and verify that the settings are all stored. 13) Before you continue you should Log off and back several times, opening several applications to make sure they are all properly configured. 14) At this point it is time to change, within the profile folder "bloccato.v2" filename "ntuser.dat" in "Ntuser.man" 15) "Switch User" 16) DONE! login as "student" and try to change some settings - disconnect and go back. The profile "student" is locked! Further customizations of the mandatory profile can be done ulocking it by renaming back ntuser.man to ntuser.dat. I hope this is useful to someone. By, Stefano

Hi, i had the same problem. I have to set up a P.C. classroom for students with mandatory profiles without the use of an active directory domain server. I needed to setup and customize a LOCAL mandatory profile on a sample machine for replication. I wrote some notes to describe the working solution, in italian, below an attempt to translate it (i apologize for my poor english) 1) login as an user of group 'Administrators' 2) From the "User Management" create user 'student' with password 'student' and set: -Password never expires -User can not change password 3) Start Menu> Change User> log in as user 'student' 4) "Disconnect" 5) Create a new folder in C:\Users\ and call it with a name like 'bloccato.v2'. 6) Login as Administrator and copy the profile "DEFAULT" (the default system profile) to the newly created folder using the System Settings menu Advanced> User Profiles Settings> BUTTON "Copy to ...". IMPORTANT! Before you copy use the "Change" to allow the group 'Authenticated Users' use of the new profile. This operation overwrites the entire contents of the folder 'bloccato.v2' with the content of the default profile, but allows 'Authenticated Users' to use it. 7) Menu "User Management"> user "student"> "Profile" - enter in the "Profile Path" box the path of the folder 'bloccato.v2' remembering that the folder must be specified omitting the extension. v2 - so the path becomes C:\Users\bloccato 8) "Switch User" 9) login again as "student" 10) customize the desktop settings, the home page of the browsers, the proxy, and anything else you need blocked. 11) "Disconnect" 12) go back in as user 'student' and verify that the settings are all stored. 13) Before you continue you should Log off and back several times, opening several applications to make sure they are all properly configured. 14) At this point it is time to change, within the profile folder "bloccato.v2" filename "ntuser.dat" in "Ntuser.man" 15) "Switch User" 16) DONE! login as "student" and try to change some settings - disconnect and go back. The profile "student" is locked! Further customizations of the mandatory profile can be done ulocking it by renaming back ntuser.man to ntuser.dat. I hope this is useful to someone. By, Stefano