Roming / Manditory User profiles

[Guest]

We have a situation in a school environment where we have several hundred
students using a hundred or so XP computers (win2k domain), all of the
students use the same common mandatory profile our GPO has the entries for
removing the local copy of the profile on log off.
..
When a student logs on the profile is loaded and every thing works as it
should. when the student logs off the local copy of the profile is not
removed, this leads to a situation where a computer may have as many as 50
or so local copies of the profile stored.

Is there any way to make this work properly (under NT4 WS on a NT4 domain
this worked, using the NT4 policies)

 

[Paul Munro]

There are probably a couple of things you can try, you can set the following

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\winlogon]
"DeleteRoamingCache"=dword:00000001

Some badly behaved services sometimes lock open files in the profile, which
stops the profile from being completely deleted, so it is probably worth
specifying a shutdown script which does a clean of any directories that are
orphaned profiles. Basically it should delete all directories in \documents
and settings\ except for allusers, default user, localservice and
networkservice. The shutdown script can be set via the gpedit.msc or via AD
group policy and runs in localsystem account and so can clean these
files/directories.

Regards,
Paul.