Mandatory Profiles on a network.

[Guest]

I am currently studying for Windows XP 70-270 exam and one of the sources of study is the CBT nuggets videos.
I have a question that was not answered as follows:

If a Mandatory profile is created and assigned to all users accounts so that they cannot make changes to the workstation settings, what happens with the files that they save to the "My Documents" folder ?
Does this mean that if all users log on using this mandatory account they see all the files that are saved to the "my Documents" folder by all users ?

Hope someone can help !

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I am currently studying for Windows XP 70-270 exam and one of the
sources of study is the CBT nuggets videos. I have a question that
was not answered as follows:

If a Mandatory profile is created and assigned to all users accounts
so that they cannot make changes to the workstation settings, what
happens with the files that they save to the "My Documents" folder ?
Does this mean that if all users log on using this mandatory account
they see all the files that are saved to the "my Documents" folder by
all users ?

Yes....if they're all using the same profile.

 

[Guest]

Thanks!

One more quick one:
In this case how do you overcome this problem and what about the user's *.pst file ?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

It's not really a problem - don't have them all use the same profile. You
can have them use individual mandatory profiles. And I don't use PST files
(MS doesn't support accessing them across LAN/WAN connections anyway). If
the network is big enough to justify roaming profiles it may well be big
enough to justify Exchange.