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Help XP Mandatory User Profiles and Themes
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I have configured a mandatory user profile hosted off a 2003 server on which the pupils have only read & execute. The profile path in active directory u & c points to the mandatory profile on the server. The profile works however the only get the classic desktop. I want my users to have the lunar theme applied. This doesn't appear to be saved in the ntuser.dat I created a group policy to apply the lunar theme to all my systems, however my users with mandatory profiles still get the classic desktop and not the lunar theme. If I removed the mandatory profile path from the user account the policy is applied and the pupil has a XP lunar desktop. Clearly I am missing something important here and it's probably got something to do with the order in which things are being applied. Is there a way around this? so that I can have both a mup and a theme applied. Thanks in advance Andy. |
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Help XP Mandatory User Profiles and Themes
andy wrote:
Hi, I have configured a mandatory user profile hosted off a 2003 server on which the pupils have only read & execute. The profile path in active directory u & c points to the mandatory profile on the server. The profile works however the only get the classic desktop. I want my users to have the lunar theme applied. This doesn't appear to be saved in the ntuser.dat I created a group policy to apply the lunar theme to all my systems, however my users with mandatory profiles still get the classic desktop and not the lunar theme. If I removed the mandatory profile path from the user account the policy is applied and the pupil has a XP lunar desktop. Clearly I am missing something important here and it's probably got something to do with the order in which things are being applied. Is there a way around this? so that I can have both a mup and a theme applied. Thanks in advance Andy. Mandatory means it's essentially read-only, so I don't know that you can do this via policy. I suppose you could modify it (after changing user.man to user.dat) and then reset it as you wish. If this is really important to you (it sure wouldn't be to me; I force classic anyway!) post in m.p.windows.group_policy to see if there are other options... |
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Help XP Mandatory User Profiles and Themes
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" ahoo.com wrote in message ... andy wrote: Hi, I have configured a mandatory user profile hosted off a 2003 server on which the pupils have only read & execute. The profile path in active directory u & c points to the mandatory profile on the server. The profile works however the only get the classic desktop. I want my users to have the lunar theme applied. This doesn't appear to be saved in the ntuser.dat I created a group policy to apply the lunar theme to all my systems, however my users with mandatory profiles still get the classic desktop and not the lunar theme. If I removed the mandatory profile path from the user account the policy is applied and the pupil has a XP lunar desktop. Clearly I am missing something important here and it's probably got something to do with the order in which things are being applied. Is there a way around this? so that I can have both a mup and a theme applied. Thanks in advance Andy. Mandatory means it's essentially read-only, so I don't know that you can do this via policy. I suppose you could modify it (after changing user.man to user.dat) and then reset it as you wish. If this is really important to you (it sure wouldn't be to me; I force classic anyway!) post in m.p.windows.group_policy to see if there are other options... Lanwench, Thanks for the reply. The computers are used in a school and since most staff & pupils are used to the XP theme we would like to have it available in school. We haven't ever bothered with mandatory or roaming profiles in the past, we have used group policy to lock down the desktops (with great success). All I really want to acheive is a XP desktop using mandatory user profiles, my users will complain if they are presented the classic desktop. Has anyone cracked this? Andy. |
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Help XP Mandatory User Profiles and Themes
"andy" wrote in message ... "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" ahoo.com wrote in message ... andy wrote: Hi, I have configured a mandatory user profile hosted off a 2003 server on which the pupils have only read & execute. The profile path in active directory u & c points to the mandatory profile on the server. The profile works however the only get the classic desktop. I want my users to have the lunar theme applied. This doesn't appear to be saved in the ntuser.dat I created a group policy to apply the lunar theme to all my systems, however my users with mandatory profiles still get the classic desktop and not the lunar theme. If I removed the mandatory profile path from the user account the policy is applied and the pupil has a XP lunar desktop. Clearly I am missing something important here and it's probably got something to do with the order in which things are being applied. Is there a way around this? so that I can have both a mup and a theme applied. Thanks in advance Andy. Mandatory means it's essentially read-only, so I don't know that you can do this via policy. I suppose you could modify it (after changing user.man to user.dat) and then reset it as you wish. If this is really important to you (it sure wouldn't be to me; I force classic anyway!) post in m.p.windows.group_policy to see if there are other options... Lanwench, Thanks for the reply. The computers are used in a school and since most staff & pupils are used to the XP theme we would like to have it available in school. We haven't ever bothered with mandatory or roaming profiles in the past, we have used group policy to lock down the desktops (with great success). All I really want to acheive is a XP desktop using mandatory user profiles, my users will complain if they are presented the classic desktop. Has anyone cracked this? Andy. More information: If the user is a member of the local admin group on the client the user gets the luna theme applied, regardless of the fact that the profile is mandatory. Take the user out of local admin and the user gets classic desktop. Andy. |
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