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I've heard the same about support for roaming/mandatory profiles. But I need a quick and dirty solution right now (I'm filling in for our long term absent network admin)! Is local profiles and UE-V the recommended way forward now for profiles?

We’ve just had 60 new laptops delivered that I have to deploy for use by our 6th form students. We are currently running Windows 7 on all clients but these laptops will be running Windows 10. All students/staff are currently use roaming profiles. I want to move away from roaming profiles to mandatory profiles. Testing with Mandatory profiles has worked fine so far. BUT! 6th form students will also still have access to Windows 7 clients and my concern is how setting a mandatory profile on their account will affect their experience on Windows 7 clients. Our current environment: - We have a Windows 2012 R2 domain - Desktops are currently Windows 7 - Profiles are currently Roaming profiles - GPOs are used to lockdown the desktop - Profile folders (My Docs, etc) are redirected to network file shares I plan on imaging the laptops with Windows Education (1803) - Students will be configured to use a Mandatory profile - GPOs will lockdown the desktop - User profile path (in Active Directory account) will be set to \\server\foldershare\mandatory (changed from roaming profile path) It will be months (maybe years!) before the entire school is Windows 10 so students will be logging into both Windows 7 and Windows 10 PCs for some time. I’m hoping some of you have suffered the pain I’m about to go through and have some pearls of wisdom and advice you can offer me! Any potential gotchas? Should I even by taking the approach of using mandatory profiles in a mixed OS environment?

Does anyone know why my setup screen doesnt display properly (see attachment)? IIS is a complete mystery to me... I think I've followed all the instructions but its possible I may have misunderstood something. I'm running IIS8 on Win 2012 R2 as a member server.

@jamesleonard was the man indeed. Sent him a PM and now our domain is finally upgraded. Thanks to all for the suggestions!

We've dipped our toe into GSuite for Education recently and we like what we see. The only problem we have is that it is taking forever for Google to actually approve our application. We started our trial in late January and after completing the upgrade form when our trial ended we still havent had our account approved. I've chased them regularly via email but hear nothing back. Does anyone have any advice on how to push our application forward? Are there any cages at Google I can rattle?