RE: XP SP2 Sysprep Problem

Hello Charlie,
It certain is possible that some problems may remain after the change in
SP2. This should address some of the more common issues that were occuring
after a profile copy and replace, but it may not have captured all the
possible conditions.
The permissions should be reset for example, some of the registry settings
should not be correct for the new users. there are a lot of potential for
issues with this procedure however this is starting point to make that
process easier and supportable.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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<Thanks Darrell -
<
<I replied to this last night, but it doesn't show.
<Anyway, you answered my questions, for the most part.
<
<To answer your first question, I absolutely don't copy profiles because of
<the problems, mentioned in my previous post, that I have seen it cause.
<
<The only big question I still have is whether these problems have been
<eliminated by this "supported method" of copying profiles when using
Sysprep.
< I had heard otherwise in this Newsgroup right after SP2 RTM was released.
<
<It's important to me because I am about to work on creating images with a
<new team, and I suspect that they have been customizing the
Administrator's
<profile and then letting Sysprep copy it to Default User.
<
<Thanks for your help.
<
<""Darrell Gorter[MSFT]"" wrote:
<
<> Hello Charlie,
<> So there are a couple of questions about which scenario you are actually
<> asking about.
<> 1) Are you overwriting the default user profile with another profile?
If
<> the answer is yes there are issues with this and this shouldn't be done.

<> This can break any number of items and requires each user to be an
<> administator. Permissions and links in the profiles are no longer
correct.
<> 2) Are you asking if renaming the administrator profile is a workaround
for
<> the issue with SP2 over writing it is acceptable? Yes this should work
<> fine, the default user profile is not overwritten, this assumes that you
<> are not overwriting the default user profile with another profile.
Sysprep
<> looks for an administrator profile and when it doesn't find one it skips
<> the step of replacing the default user profile.
<> 3)The change to sysprep to overwrite the default user profile was made
<> because people were requesting that they have a way to do this that
would
<> be supported. Since this option was added to Sysprep this is a
supported
<> way to copy over profile information and replace the default user
profile
<> with the Administrator profile.
<> Thanks,
<> Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
<>
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<> <As many people have discovered, when you create a computer image from a
<> <Windows XP SP2 prototype then run Sysprep, the Default User profile
gets
<> <copied over by the Administrator profile.
<> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887816
<> <
<> <The above article mentions a hotfix. I have never used the hotfix to
get
<> <around the problem, instead I just rename the Administrator account.
This
<> <has worked on several different prototypes and I haven't seen any
problems
<> <from it.
<> <
<> <Can someone confirm that there are no known issues with this method?
<> <Because I am about to be involved in the re-imaging for a large student
<> <computer lab, I want to be certain. It's interesting that MS doesn't
<> mention
<> <it as a workaround, so maybe there's a good reason.
<> <
<> <By the way, I have seen some serious problems created by copying user
<> <profiles.
<> <I have seen where the Administrator's profile gets copied to the
Default
<> <User profile, then all users end up with the same Outlook.pst (the one
in
<> the
<> <original profile) which can be a huge privacy problem as well as an
<> <inconvenience. In fact, if the user doesn't have Admin rights they
can't
<> <even open Outlook because they don't have access to the .pst in the
other
<> <profile. I have also seen where it creates a Desktop and My Documents
<> Folder
<> <in the Local Service profile. Sometimes when the user tries to save a
<> file,
<> <such as a Word document, the default My Documents folder that shows in
the
<> <Save As dialog box is the one from Local Service. There are
undoubtedly
<> <other problems caused by this that I haven't even seen.
<> <
<> <Do these problems also show up when Sysprep causes the Administrator
<> profile
<> <to be copied to the Default User profile, or is that one of the reasons
MS
<> <decided to do this?
<> <
<> <Thanks.
<> <
<>
<>
<

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