profiles

[Guest]

I am trying to find out if there is a way of appllying a policy to computers
which, when a user logs onto to a machine, gives them a
profile that is for that machine only, and not for that user. e.g.. if a
student logs on to one classes computers they get a mandatory profile for
that machine which may have different settings from another classroom.

We have 1400 kids at school who log onto different computers. At the moment
they all use one Mandatory profile loaded from a share. We are getting to the
point where that profile needs to be different for various PCs, the desktop
in one classroom needs to be different from a desktop in a another classroom.
Can anyone think of away of achieving this?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I am trying to find out if there is a way of appllying a policy to computers
which, when a user logs onto to a machine, gives them a
profile that is for that machine only, and not for that user. e.g.. if a
student logs on to one classes computers they get a mandatory profile for
that machine which may have different settings from another classroom.

We have 1400 kids at school who log onto different computers. At the moment
they all use one Mandatory profile loaded from a share. We are getting to the
point where that profile needs to be different for various PCs, the desktop
in one classroom needs to be different from a desktop in a another classroom.
Can anyone think of away of achieving this?

Start by creating a profile exactly the way you like it,
using a non-admin account.

Now reboot, log on under an admin account, then
copy this profile to "Default User".

You should be able to copy it to the "Default User"
folder of every PC in a given lab (although I haven't
tried this myself).

 

[george]

Sounds like you want computer based settings to apply to any user, logging
on to *this* given computer.
Check out User Group Policy processing mode setting in GPO:Computer
Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ System \ Group Policy
Of course this means you'll have to have at least a Windows 2000 Active
Directory domain and all your systems be a member of that domain.
It may also not cater for specific desktop layouts (Start menus and the
like) that you want varied as well.
But maybe a combination of 'classroom specific mandatory profiles' and this
GPO setting will do the trick.
For the GPO part you would group your desktops in 'classroom related OU's'
and assign the particular GPO to that OU.

hth to get you started on a solution.

george

 

[george]

Also, Andy, you might want to try and find out how you can 'cross-post' in
newsgroups as opposed to multi-posting (ie. putting the same message in
multiple newsgroups.)
Why,
because with crossposting into more groups the answers given are all related
to the same post, no matter in which group the post was answered, so anyone
looking at it would immediately see there was already an answer/solution
given.
With multi posting a reader of the post in one group would be totally
oblivious of the fact that the solution has already been provided in an
answer to the post in another group.
Also, this does not help in the 'education' of the forum-visitors, unless
they frequent the same groups/posts as you.

george