Hi guys.

I want to use mandatory user profiles on windows 2003 server.What i need i want to do customise clients desktop.For example they just able see printer icon in their computer.Some documents should come froem their profiles.Life ms world and exel on their desktop also printer icon on start menu.I mean very high securty.Is it possible to di with mandatory profile.I need urgent help guys.

Also 1 more think.They wanna update their desktop.They are gonna change every day and that desktop keep update them.25 computers.

Clients: Windows XP Prof

Many thanks


Hakan

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From Windows Help:

The only issue I see is how to update that profile on a daily basis as you mentioned.

To create a mandatory user profile

Open Active Directory Users and Computers.
In the details pane, right-click the applicable user account.
Where?

Active Directory Users and Computers
applicable domain
applicable container (such as Users)
applicable user account
Click Properties.
In the Properties dialog box, click the Profile tab.
In Profile path, type the path information ending with the .man file name extension.
Notes

To open Active Directory Users and Computers, click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.
Use a full path in each user account:
\\server\share\%username%.man

For share, create a Profiles folder if it does not already exist, and share the folder with authenticated users allowing read only permissions. The share must be created before the user profile is enabled.

When creating a mandatory profile, make sure you set the appropriate access permissions for the user or groups of users that will use this profile.
You can also create a mandatory user profile by using Windows Explorer to rename the ntuser.dat file to ntuser.man.
A mandatory user profile is a preconfigured user profile. The user can still modify the desktop, but the changes are not saved when the user logs off. The next time the user logs on, the mandatory user profile is downloaded again. User profiles become mandatory when you rename the NTuser.dat file on the server to NTuser.man. This extension makes the user profile read-only.
The administrator can assign the same mandatory user profile to as many users as needed.

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Thanks for information.

But i couldt find ablicable user profile...I can do it same think with group policy on domain user also without use mandaroty profile.


How can i find applicable user account .Which i can add or remove policy on their desktop and computers.


thankss

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You need to create a profile. You could use the one you log in with or any legitemate user credentials that can you can log on with. Start by configuring all of the settings, shortcuts and other profile goodies you want each user to be assigned. Next you are going to use the profiles tab in the properties of 'my computer'to copy the profile to a central share, making sure to set the permissions when you copy it, so all users can use it. Then change the ntuser.dat file extension on the shared profile to ntuser.man. Then each user in AD Users and Computers has to have their account set to load that profile.

After that, to accomplish updating the profile, someone or even a batch or script could copy various documents and shortcuts into the central profile and all users would get the changes when they log on. Hope this helps.

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after that i changed my mind.And i tried to do these think with AC .and it works perfect.i learnt lots of think on AC.


Thanks for you help

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