Re: Forcing Roaming Profiles to load???

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From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 22:33:45 -0600

The only profile you can truly force is a MANDATORY.

Set the Mandatory profile by (you) creating the file NTUser.man
or renaming it from an existing NTUser.dat AND also make the
directory use .man as an extension (both the actual directory and
the sepcification in the user properties.

Depending on a roaming profile which is non-mandatory is not
a method of security but rather of hope in any case.

(This weird (double-dot-man extensions) was due to a request that
I made to the Product group for a very large MS customer. I may not
of course been the only one <grin>) 

-- 
Herb Martin

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