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Maybe you can help me out here. I've got five meeting rooms with lots of AV equipment in each which is going to be left in there for basically anyone to use. In each room there's a PC running XP pro. Some of them have SmartBoard software but otherwise they're basically standard.
As preventative maintenance I don't want these machines just accumulating data every time someone logs on and starts putting their files on, so I think the best way to do this would be if the user profile folder was only created per session and deleted automatically when the user logs off, and they're restricted to only being able to save files into their documents folder in their profile. This sounds to me like something which should be possible to set using group policies but I've never done it before. Any thoughts?
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Ok, here's your solution. You create the user profile you want on your server and adjust the machines locally to to assign a Mandatory User Profile.
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Sorry, I know you spent some time looking for a solution for me.
What I mean is, we looked at it and decided it's probably better if the machine isn't actually on our domain anyway so we're going to be switching the rooms onto our restricted network and then just putting a single restricted user account onto each machine. This fits in better with the kind of setup we were aiming for anyway.
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That seems to make sense, you'd only have to make huge signs saying 'Hey dicks, this shit will delete any shit you leave so don't be shit' around anyway, then they'd call the helpdesk moaning their shit got shitted.
[ 23.10.2009, 07:52: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
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Actually Ringo, although I am not anywhere near a MS Genius, just a thought but can't you have the accounts so they use a server for the profile data, and thus none is copied to the local machine? I am sure that's possible - saves filling up the drives with shit....
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