Profiles

[cwissy]

Work in a school, changing to 2003 over Xmas. What sort of profiles should we use, we have found in the past that the more profiles stored on a PC the slower it gets.
With Novell we created a local profile and then removed it on logout for students and let them stay for more static users (like teachers with their own PC)
I would be grateful for any advice.

 

[bofhrevenge2]

Towards the bottom of this thread there are details of the setup that I’ve used at a few schools.

thread931-948600

This will provide you with a standard desktop and start menu but will allow "personal" settings e.g. internet faves.
If you want a very rigid desktop then you could use mandatory profiles but they can be very inflexible in a rapidly changing environment like a school, and you can achieve the same level of security with 2003 active directory.

 

[bofhrevenge2]

Oh and we use a VBS script to delete profiles from the hard drives at logoff to keep the disks from filling up, this increases logon times slightly but it's a trade off that works well in a school environment.

There is an Active Directory setting to do this but it's not as reliable as the VBS script.

 

[cwissy]

Couldn't find any details of profile set up, I presume you mean toward the bottom of the thread 931-948600?

 

[bofhrevenge2]

Yes thats the thread i was refering too.

Cheers.