Way to dupilicate data stored in Active Directory Profiles?

[Guest]

Please bear with me in my lack of terminology

We are using shared profiles for our users in our Windows 2000 Active
Directory
and these profiles are shared out to our 8 Terminial Servers
that we are running.
Every time a user logs into Terminal server, their profile
is grabbed off a different server on the network and used
as they log in to each Terminal Server throughout the day.

Is there a way to create a 'master' profile that we could
share between ALL users - so that we do not have to
configure each user's profile to contain information like
'mapped network drives' or 'network printers' or
'desktop settings' etc... etc....

I hope this is clear and that there is a way to do this.
If you need me to be more clear on something, please let
me know....

Any help is appreciated.
Thank you.
Dave Grams

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

About the terminology: what you call a "shared" profile is called a
"roaming" profile. The profile is unique to each individual user,
and it roams with the user from server to server.

What you want is really to share a common profile between all
users. That is possible, but only if you make it read-only.If
multiple users would be allowed to write changes to a single shared
profile, it would very soon become corrupt.

Such a read-only profile, in which the users can't save changes
(can't save Favorites, Recent documents, etc) is called a
"mandatory" profile.
Here's how to create it:

HOW TO: Assign a Mandatory User Profile in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323368