Re: Assigning user profiles based on OU

From: Arizona Bill (ArizonaBill_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:13:02 -0700

Mark, Thanks your assistance on this. That could possibly work but how should I set the %profileserver% environment on client boot?

The main issue I have is that our CTO wants to be staff members to be able to user student workstations and pull the student profile. Having all the start->program files-> and applications that a student we be able to use. Student that are part of a special topic class that has designated machines with specific apps only showing those specific apps on the client machines.

"Mark Renoden [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Bill
>
> I'm pretty sure the answer is no. I assume you want the server name to be
> different depending on which client machine you log onto? The only way I
> can see you achieving this is to set the user profile path to something like
> \\%profileserver%\users\%username% and set the %profileserver% environment
> variable when the client boots.
>
> Probably a better approach is to identify which settings should be common
> across all client machines and implement those in a GPO linked to an OU.
> Inside that OU, create OU's for specific client machine sets and apply
> another GPO to each of those OU's that set the unique settings for that
> group of client machines. If the policy settings are specific to the "User
> Configuration" parts of the GPO's, you can use policy loopback as I
> mentioned earlier:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/deploy/confeat/grppolsc.mspx
>
> It's really worthwhile reading the document that I mentioned before. If it
> doesn't answer your questions specifically, it'll give some good practices
> that you can then adapt to your specific scenario.
>
> Kind regards
> --
> Mark Renoden [MSFT]
> Windows Platform Support Team
> Email: markreno@online.microsoft.com
>
> Please note you'll need to strip ".online" from my email address to email
> me; I'll post a response back to the group.
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> "Arizona Bill" <ArizonaBill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F3B2E586-57B5-49FE-BA5A-4226CF6AB816@microsoft.com...
> > Mark, can you tell me if this is possible?
> >
> > I am trying to find out information in regards to whether or not this can
> > be done. I am currently running an Windows 2000 active directory will all
> > windows xp pro sp1 clients. I have been asked to Map User profiles to a
> > network drive. Ex. z:\profile. The problem is that I have created a VBS
> > script to run in the computer script section of Group Policy for the
> > Organizational Unit where the machine resides when the machine boots up.
> > (MapNetworkDrive "z:", "\\server\users)
> >
> > The purpose of this is to map specified manditory profiles to workstations
> > and not the Users. When Implemented, a user logs in and a message window
> > appears stating that it is unable to find the roaming profile. When a
> > non-profiled account logs onto the system and opens "My Computer" the
> > mapped dirve Z:\profile is there. When you double click on the drive it
> > takes you to the share.
> >
> > I question is: Is it possible to map user profiles to a network drive
> > that is mapped when the workstation authenticates to the AD network? I
> > don't want to make the user profile to a UNC Path name Ex.
> > \\server\users\%username% but instead to Z:\%username%
> >
> >
> > "Mark Renoden [MSFT]" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Tim/Bill
> >>
> >> Consider designing GPO/s that include settings for the users that are
> >> common
> >> across all computers and then implementing the differing settings using
> >> policy in the computer configuration. Another option is policy loopback:
> >>
> >> 231287 Loopback Processing of Group Policy
> >> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=231287
> >>
> >> The following document may be useful (although not specific to your
> >> needs):
> >>
> >> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/deploy/confeat/grppolsc.mspx
> >>
> >> Kind regards
> >> --
> >> Mark Renoden [MSFT]
> >> Windows Platform Support Team
> >> Email: markreno@online.microsoft.com
> >>
> >> Please note you'll need to strip ".online" from my email address to email
> >> me; I'll post a response back to the group.
> >>
> >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> >> rights.
> >>
> >> "Arizona Bill" <Arizona Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:01B819AE-6ADA-46A5-9A4F-214FFD702B12@microsoft.com...
> >> > Tim, I am also having the same issues. I have manditory profiles set
> >> > for
> >> > users but have mutiple computers with differ applications. If a
> >> > profile
> >> > can be based on OU or mapping a profile to a drive letter which is
> >> > mapped
> >> > via a VBS Script based in the OU GPO.
> >> >
> >> > Can anyone shed any light on this issue?
> >> >
> >> > "Tim" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Does anyone know of a way to assign a mandatory profile
> >> >> based on the computer that the user logs on to. We are in
> >> >> a college setting and not all of our computers have the
> >> >> same programs. We want to assign a standard profile to be
> >> >> used by students but do not want dead shortcuts on the
> >> >> desktop. We could easily create seperate profiles to be
> >> >> used based on computer location OU, but is this possible?
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >> Tim
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

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