Re: user profiles

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"James Bond" <jbond@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
"James Bond" <jbond@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am about to ghost a Vista image to be used as my SOE.

In the past I have copied the admin users profile to default user to
ensure all icons are present and available.

What needs to be done with Vista to ensure any user logging in can
use all apps and has icons in appropriate places.


If you are using sysprep, set up the admin user profile the way you
want it and make sure that in your sysprep.xml you set CopyProfile to
true in the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup componenet in the
specialize pass, something like this:

<settings pass="specialize">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup"
processorArchitecture="x86"
publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"
language="neutral"
versionScope="nonSxS"

xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
<CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile>
</component>

If you are using some other method, you could try copying the profile
to the default user profile, but I don't know if there are any
gotchas with that method...

We dont have the administrator account enabled and are just using a
standard domain user to setup all the apps. How does it know to use
this user or can I specify ?

THis user is a local administrator, along with a few other users on
the local system which have profiles.


we are using sysprep by the way,

As I understand it, it copies the profile of the account that is used to
run sysprep. It doesn't have to be the Administrator account, but it
does have to be a local administrator (but that's just to be able to run
sysprep I think).

--
Zaphod

No matter where you go, there you are!


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