roaming mandatory profiles xp vs cista

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Let me know if there is a better group to post this in, but...I want to upgrade one of my student labs to Vista to see how it works. I currently use deep freeze and mandatory profiles. I'm reading a Microsoft whitle paper on romaing profiles for XP that explains how make romaing files work in tandem on xp and vista. Since I have deep freeze, I can get rid of the romaing profiles if necessary. But I like them so much because it's eaiser to make global changes on the fly.

The paper says that I have two choices. I could create one roaming profile for xp users and another for vista, and just add v2 to the end of the vista's users folder name. I figure this would be best becausse both profiles would be pretty much exactly the same except that one would be created on an xp box and the other on a vista box. But then I'd have to remember that I have to make any changes made to both profiles. That's a bit of a hassle.

The other suggestion the white paper gives is to just have one xp profile. The xp users would see the xp profile. Then I'd have to create a redirection gpo that only effects vista boxes. So I'd set all of the xp profile folders to sync to another share. But I want to use mandatory profiles so that my students can't make changes to the desktops etc. So after I've set the redirection policy and logged in once to make the redirection happen, can I then change the share and ntfs permissions to read only so changes can't be made to the contents of the redirected folders? Or will making the redirected folders read only cause the redirection to fail and give error messages to my users?

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