Re: Mandatory Profiles problems


"waldox" <waldox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I posted this in the General group, but I think this is where it should go.
Thanks in advance.

Reasonable "Crossposting" of a single message to multiple likely groups
is perfectly acceptable (next time).

I am trying to implement a Mandatory User Profile for some of the teams
within our company. The main reason is that they move form station to
station, or even department to department way to often. When this happens
we
have to go to the user's desk and reconfigured (all users is configure in
most machines, but still some applications settings are not copied over,
which happens to be the problem I will describe below.)

The problem:
I have succesfully created the Mandatory Profile in my test enviroment. No
problems there.

You say "tested" and "no problems" but below you say it isn't working so
are you really sure it is working at all?

The problem is that some applications will not mantain the settings of the
original profile that is being used as the manadatory one, for example,
the
IP address that they to connect to, key mappings, etc.

What do you mean by this, "APPLICATIONS will not maintain the settings..."?

Applications don't maintain the "profile setting" and a Mandatory profile is
READ ONLY if you mean that applications cannot keep the users settings
IN the profile.

Read-only is the NATURE of a mandatory profile.

Another issue is that my IE is not picking up the policy that I have in
place to set the proxy settings.

Is this in the user profile? Is IE being set from a Group Policy or even
(maybe best) from WPAD entry in DNS or DHCP?

I believe that those are the two big issues. I can't figure it out.

You may need to clarify exacty what the problem is -- the above was
unclear so I just took a couple of guesses to try to help.

One thing I did was to redirect the Application Data folder to that of the
mandatory profile through a GPO. That did not work.

GPO and Mandatory Profile are really distince although they set some of
the same things.

Does this profile work as expected when it is just tested as a non-mandatory
profile or even mandatory?

How do you know it is even being used if the settings are not taking effect?

Perhaps the regitry is the answer, but I am not sure.
Any idea and help will be greatly appreciated.

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
(phone on web site)


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