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Re: Windows 7 Default User Modification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Corduan, Nick)
Thu Apr 12 10:13:00 2012
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:01:48 +0000
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Thanks, Chuck. We've been able to use group policies for a number of our configurations. That gets messier, though, when there are user policies you only want applicable on certain computers and other user policies you only want applicable on other computers. Between loop backs and simply the gross multiplication of GPO's it can get pretty spidery in our experience.
The copying strategy has seemed glitch at best in Win 7.
NickC---
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From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Chuck Steel
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Subject: Re: Windows 7 Default User Modification
Others will probably mention ways that you can copy a profile to the default user profile as was done with XP. We have decided to invest time in using group policies to control the user experience in labs.
This isn't always easy but we have found few things that can't be set with this method. In the few cases where we can't use group policy we have made the necessary changes to the c:\users\default\ntuser.dat registry or the appropriate files in the default profile.
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Chuck Steel
Dickinson College
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Corduan, Nick <nccorduan@tayloru.edu> wrote:
> All,
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> We've tried a whole host of techniques for imaging Windows 7, and
> we've had a fair amount of success, but one thing that is a constant
> headache for us is trying to modify / customize the default user
> profile. We've found very comfortable work around (probably best
> practices anyway) for some things but there are other profile-specific
> changes that we need to make for every user who logs onto a machine,
> and just haven't found a good way to do that in Win
> 7 like we could with XP.
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> Does anyone have any success stories? Tips, tricks, techniques, third
> party solutions?
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> I'd love to hear from you.
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> Thanks!
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