Re: Mandatory profile question

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From: Chriss3 (noSpamHere_at_chrisse.se)
Date: 05/17/04 

Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:51:15 +0200

You can have Mandatory Profiles together with Group Policies yes. What the
mandatory profile prevent is that the users can't customize the profile. You
should use Folder Redirection to redirect private folders such My Document
of the mandatory profile.

I Recommend you to have a look at the User Data and Settings Management
paper it describe this good.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/user01.mspx 

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> Hi Everyone,
>
> My company has five divisions, each of which need their
> own profile in AD.  I am going to assign a customized
> mandatory profile to each division to keep things uniform,
> but I also do not want to give the users certain rights,
> therefore I will have to apply group policies.
>
> My question is: do mandatory profiles overwrite group
> policies, vice versa, or do they work together?  Is there
> a better way to push out profiles other than what I am
> doing?  I've tried folder redirection, but that meant
> making a seperate group policy for every division.  This
> way, I can apply the mandatory profile, and have one
> umbrella group policy go over the top of it for every
> division.  Any suggestions would be very welcome.
> Thanks!

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