[THIN] Re: super mandatory profiles
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:44:46 +0100
And in fairness - although I'm not entirely with them on this - ever
since W2K, they've subtly discouraged mandatory profiles.
Presumably based on the complications that can be presented with
application configuration / personalisation.
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Malczewski
> Sent: 15 July 2004 19:40
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: super mandatory profiles
>
> Not that I am in any way defending MS, but if you were a
> company of that size with that diverse of a product line,
> it'd be difficult for you to keep it all documented and
> available as well... I think they do a "decent" job.. Always
> room for improvement though...
>
> I have trouble just keeping track of past KBs that I have
> used to help me solve issues.. There have litterally been
> thousands of them over the years...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Hathaway [mailto:JimH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 2:29 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: super mandatory profiles
>
> And this is done mearly by changing the root Dir of the
> mandatory prof to have a *.man at the end of it?
>
> As opposed the same type of login restriction happening when
> you set up the group policy "log off user when roaming
> profile fails".
>
> I'd always thought that you only needed to change the
> Ntuser.dat to a *.man and there you go. But because of this
> thread today I found the NT 4.0 specific KB article on
> setting up mandatories where they discussed changing the
> profile folder name as well.
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=168476 - KB 168476
>
> In the Windows 2000 KB articles on setting up mandatories
> they don't discuss this apparently still functional legacy
> setup option for mandatories.
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=323368 - KB 323368
>
> Live and learn I guess, too bad MS hasn't documented this
> behavior well.
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