Re: Forcing only Local profiles

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From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:45:50 -0500

Are you setting this from GPEDIT on the machine, or via your domain's Group Policies. When connecting to a Domain, the domain's policies override local policies. 

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"Dan DeCoursey" <DanDeCoursey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:26215736-5359-408E-949A-F0FA4A09E28F@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> 
> I want my moble users to only use local profile when loggin into their 
> laptop even when t is docked ( attached to the LAN)  MS advocates enabling 
> the Group policy setting "ONLY ALLOW LOCAL USER PROFILES"  
> Computer Configuration\Admin templates\system\user profiles
> So, I have enabled this setting ....but when the laptop is attachedto the 
> network and a domain user logs in ..they still get their domain roaming user 
> profile downloaded to the laptop ....  It would appear this policy setting 
> would specifically stop this ( as per Microsoft's expert explaination)  but 
> for me it isnt doing it ....any ideas ?? thanks

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