Well what we have done is we do Sysprep the each Windows 2008 servers and as a part of the XML files we have set the admin profile and its copies the data to the Default user profile and it works like a charm
________________________________ From: Carl Houseman <[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, April 12, 2010 12:29:14 PM Subject: RE: Copying profiles in Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 7 The black wallpaper problem can be solved. See post from "Snatraps" near the bottom of this long discussion thread about the problem on Technet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/5a5d44b6-116a-4a21-bc64-53379218ecc6 Unfortunately, there's two versions of Enabler out there that purport to do the same thing, and neither one worked on my W7 x64. Carl From:James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Copying profiles in Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 7 Has anyone found a workaround of any sort for the issue with copying profiles in Windows 2008 R2 - i.e. it can't be done, the Copy button is greyed-out in System properties for all except the Default User profile? All I am looking to do is apply some basic settings and remove some of the associated default user bloat by copying a customised profile to "\\DC\netlogon\Default User.v2", but MS appear to have removed this functionality for some reason and are now recommending that you use a local account and then copy it to the default profile using sysprep. As I occasionally want to make updates to this customised default profile, this seems like a bit of a pain in the proverbials to have had the functionality removed - especially as it was available during my testing on Server 2008 R1. I have read a few threads recommending the use of a third-party tool called Windows Enabler, but apparently this changes the desktop to black, which makes it unsuitable for me. There are also a few suggestions for renaming the Default folder and then renaming the customised folder to Default, but I don't fancy doing this...it seems a bit haphazard for my liking, and I like to get the base user profile nice and smart and streamlined. If anyone has any ideas or tips I would be very grateful, TIA, JRR -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
