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Hi All. Our primary school staff are currently logging onto their school provided laptops as their AD user accounts. they are admins on them, but use network printers, drives, etc... most schools are going for the 360Safe status around us, so they want to change their passwords every 90 days. question is, how do we get the staff laptops (which we see) to change their passwords so the teachers don't loose access to their home drive, staffshare, schoolshare, printers, Sims, etc... is there a simple way for us (onsite on a rota - not every day) to do this? Thanks very much.

It would be for whole school use. As I say, they have older software which is clunky and un supported.

Not sure if this is the correct Forum for this. I've been asked by a teacher for a new piece of software for writing end of year reports. they have been using Report Assist - which is now no longer made or supported. Ive heard of ReportPlus, but wondered what everyone else was using? Obviously there's the classic Word Document Template or a Publisher file, but they want something with a bank of options in it ready to go. Thanks.

BoredGuy - so does that mean that for every student, the same profile is defined in Active Directory, then Staff have their own folder with a copy of the NTUser.dat file in?

I've got a limited number of users in each school with a roaming profile with desktop and my docs re-directed - but they are for the Admin front office staff. We don't seem to get too many issues as they all seem to have their own PC and logon to that one machine. Have any of you used Mandatory profiles with Windows 8? How are you moving the profile onto the profile share on the server for users to login with?

Thanks Chuckster - so are you just allowing the user to create their own profile at logon - with the folders re-directed via GPO? seems a good idea. think for the kids, we were thinking of sticking with the Mandatory - we support Primary, Infant, Junior - so the ability to logoff and logon and get the correct icons back is an advantage.

Morning All. We have been using Mandatory profiles since XP - create the profile, make the changes, copy to the server, make .dat a .man, etc... with Windows 7, we have done the same, but using Windows Enabler to make the "Copy to" button active and the .v2 profile. I'm aware this is technically a not supported method. I was wondering how you guys are doing your profiles? Do you use mandatory profiles for all? Or do you use Roaming Profiles and re-directs? We are starting to look at redirecting desktops for staff - particularly SMT users. We currently support 30 schools at the moment - so we are looking at trying to maximise the performance of all workstations, laptops, netbooks, etc.... thanks.