Re: OU GPO - Problem setting TS Profile Path for users under a spe

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"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

Yes, the behaviour that you describe is by design.
That's how settings in GPOs are applied. When a user logs on to a
computer (be it a workstation or a TS) the following settings apply
(without loopback processing):
1. the Computer Configuration settings from the GPO linked to the
OU which contains the computer account
2. the User Configuration settings from the GPO linked to the OU
which contains the user account


Yes, I get that... (and am resigned to that fact :-) )

I am now trying to figure out how to "skin the cat" a different way.

Basically, I want to use Active Directory to make a group of users act as
if I manually went into each of their user properties and manually
configured the Terminal Server Profile Tab's Terminal Server Profile Path/Set
Path"

Right now, the only thing I can think of is setting a GPO at the "user OU"
level that makes a login script run that somehow automagically sets that user
to mandatory profile. At the moment , I don't know how to write that script.

Any thoughts on the script? Or other ways to skin the cat?

Regards

Ken

(btw as an aside, I got the "run program with desktop behind it" behavior I
wanted by using the userconfig setting "run program at login" rather than the
conputer config "run program at connection)


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Vera Noest
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