Help XP Mandatory User Profiles and Themes

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From: andy (andy_at_login2.net)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:15:01 -0000

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.

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