Default User and Roaming Profiles

[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.

 

[NIC Student]

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.

--
Scott Baldridge
Windows Server MVP, MCSE


"Tom Fish"