[THIN] Re: How to selectively disable the contents of the "All users" profile folder?

They are created for every new user that logs in. Is it possible to hide
them?

And, while I'm on a roll, I've used the Windows 2003 policy feature to allow
per-server TS profiles. This works perfectly for AD users but only works for
NT4 domain users if they DON'T have an existing profile in the folder
specified in their NT4 TS profile path. If I remove the NT4 profile, a new
local profile is created from the local Default User profile (which I want)
but if the old profile exists, it's loaded and used from the fileserver.

Migration to the new system will be gradual so I'd rather not have to rmeove
each profile as and when it isn't needed any more. Can anyone confirm that
per-server profiles in W2K3 only apply to AD users?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Pitsch [mailto:jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 29 April 2005 14:28
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: How to selectively disable the contents of the "All
users" profile folder?


Leave the icon but hide them.  I've done that before to get around them.  

Jeff Pitsch

On 4/29/05, Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've switched off the common programs groups for all except 
> administrators now but I'm still having problems getting rid of the 
> autocreating IE, OE etc icons in users start menus. I use StartBuild 
> to generate start menu folders so I really don't need MS interfering!
> 
> I tried setting the "stubpath="" entries under 
> HKLM\software\microsoft\active setup\installed components but the 
> icons are still generated. Any further suggestions?
> 
> Angus
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ulrich Mack [mailto:ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 28 April 2005 12:24
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: How to selectively disable the contents of the 
> "All users" profile folder?
> 
> Hi Angus,
> 
> A while ago we did an upgrade from NT 4.0 TSE/Metaframe Xp FR1 to 
> WIndows Server 2003/Metaframe XP FR3.
> 
> We just defined the profile location as 
> \\server\profiles\%username%\%osv%
> 
> The OSV environment variable was defined on each "type"  of server, in 
> this case NT4 and W2K3 respectively. That kept the 2 sets of profiles 
> separated and we used the office profile wizard to copy application 
> only information between the 2 sets of profiles. Had a script to 
> translate the NT 4 printer shares to 2003 printer shares (same 
> sharename, different server) and things worked just fine, transparent 
> to the version of the O.S.
> 
> This was before we started using flex profiles, which in retrospect 
> would have been a lot better.
> 
> We've been running one 2003 site now for nearly 17 months and back-end 
> tuning and corrupt profile issues aside 2003 has been pretty good. 
> However if I had a chance to do it again we could have saved ourselves 
> heaps of grief by using flex profiles.
> 
> It's easy enough to turn off the All Users program files area by 
> enabling the group policy rule under User configuration > 
> administrative templates > Start Menu and taskbar, "Remove common 
> program groups from Start Menu".
> 
> The IE shortcut on the desktop can be controlled by group policy, and 
> the group policy snippet (Machine) below will stop recreation of the 
> outlook express icon:
> 
> -----
>    POLICY "Disable Outlook Express Icon Creation"
>    KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed 
> Components\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}"
>        PART "Stop creation of Outlook Express shortcut" CHECKBOX
>        VALUENAME "StubPath"
>            VALUEON ""
>            VALUEOFF ""
>        END PART
>    END POLICY ; Disable Outlook Express Icon Creation (regardless !!!)
> -----
> 
> Matter of fact extending this for all the other stubpath entries 
> wouldn't be all that hard.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Rick
> 
> Ulrich Mack
> Volante Systems
> 
> On 4/28/05, Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > I'm just in the process of setting up my first W2K3 / MPS3 server. 
> > Our main app seems very sensitive to user profile corruption so I'm 
> > setting the new farm up in a semi-mandatory profile arrangement. 
> > Because we already have an existing 1.8 farm and I don't want to 
> > screw around with existing profiles I'm using the W2K3 ability to 
> > specify TS profiles on a per-server basis, which doesn't work 
> > properly with mandatory profiles, sadly. Instead, I've setup the 
> > per-server profile to point to an empty folder, which forces 
> > everybody to use the "Default User" profile on the server. At 
> > logoff, I use Kix to manually change the profile type in the 
> > registry to mandatory, so it isn't unloaded to the fileserver. This 
> > gives me a reasonable facsimile of mandatory profiles without 
> > interfering with my existing farm.
> >
> > However, the shortcuts in the "All users" profile are also loaded at 
> > startup, adding lots of unwanted icons to users redirected start 
> > menus. I don't want to just clear the folder out because 
> > administrators need access to all the shortcuts. Is it possible to 
> > tell W2K3 not to use the "All users" settings?
> >
> > Also, my users redirected folders keep growing shortcuts for Outlook 
> > Express, IE and others. I don't want these so can that "useful" 
> > function be disabled as well?
> >
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