Default User and Roaming Profiles

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Tom Fish

I've just replaced an NT4 lab with XP Pro. On our campus
students have roaming profiles across the domain. With NT4
I could install software under a local account profile,
copy it to the default user profile, thus making the
software available to all users of a machine without
further installation routines. However, under XP, it seems
a user with a roaming profile does not access the default
user profile when first logging on to a machine. When
such a user tries to use a program included on the all user
desktop (e.g. WP11), the installation program runs but
fails unless the installation CD is inserted. Any
suggestions on how to solve this problem? Thanks.
 
Office will run the installer when a user logs on for the first time.

Install Office from a network location that is accessible when the user log
on, they need read rights to the share. You can use GPOs to install
Office - and it's self -healing.

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Scott Baldridge
Windows Server MVP, MCSE


"Tom Fish"
 
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