Re: Help XP Mandatory User Profiles and Themes

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:45:53 -0500

andy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have configured a mandatory user profile hosted off a 2003 server
> on which the pupils have only read & execute. The profile path in
> active directory u & c points to the mandatory profile on the server.
>
> The profile works however the only get the classic desktop. I want my
> users to have the lunar theme applied. This doesn't appear to be
> saved in the ntuser.dat
>
> I created a group policy to apply the lunar theme to all my systems,
> however my users with mandatory profiles still get the classic
> desktop and not the lunar theme.
>
> If I removed the mandatory profile path from the user account the
> policy is applied and the pupil has a XP lunar desktop.
>
> Clearly I am missing something important here and it's probably got
> something to do with the order in which things are being applied. Is
> there a way around this? so that I can have both a mup and a theme
> applied.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Andy.

Mandatory means it's essentially read-only, so I don't know that you can do
this via policy. I suppose you could modify it (after changing user.man to
user.dat) and then reset it as you wish.

If this is really important to you (it sure wouldn't be to me; I force
classic anyway!) post in m.p.windows.group_policy to see if there are other
options...

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