I f you want to close down the complete profile environment, use can use a mandatory profile. If you only want to close down the desktop folder, redirect it to a network location. Be sure to make the network location read-only and available offline. The latter could be important when using with laptop computers or if the network link goes down. Be sure when using offline files that use different computer names  (1 server with two names or 2 servers) for resources that need to be available offline and resources that are NOT available offline (always online). The offline files feature determines availability on a per server (name!) basis. If you have a server with shares that are available offline and the link speed slows down for some reason and ends up below the threshold you configured, the client determines that it should use those shares on THAT SERVER in offline mode. All other shares that only are available ONLINE are not reachable anymore because the client has determined THAT SERVER is offline!
 
My opinion about offline files: nice thought, but the technical implementation is not that OK because it is not bullet proof.
 
regards,
Jorge


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul van Geldrop
Sent: dinsdag 9 november 2004 7:43
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Win XP SP2 Mandatory desktop

Jeff,

 

GPO would definitely be a good way to do this, disallowing any change to the desktop.

You could also point the GPO to a specific desktop with folder redirection so your users would get a predefined desktop, allowing you to create different GPOs with different desktops.

That way, user A could get a different desktop from user B, suiting their personal needs.. of course, you’d need to define the groups of users that need a certain desktop and assign the GPO to that group.

What sort of input are you looking for, precisely ?

 

Paul.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cothern Jeff D. Team EITC
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Win XP SP2 Mandatory desktop

 

I have some information and an idea on how to do this but wanted to get some input.

 

Basically creating a new workstation build with XP sp2.  They want it where the users cannot change their desktop (i.e put files on the desktop)  or if they do when they logout any changes go away.   Definitely would like to do this thru GPO so that special circumstances can be made easily if need be.

 

Thanks for any input.

 

Jeff

 


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