we are a school looking to move to windows 7 but are finding profiles a problem we need to make a mandatory profile that can be used by all our students as it was possible to do in windows XP but can not get this to work in windows 7 on server 2008 r2 the profile should be stored in a central location on the server with all pupil's AD profile path pointing to it however when we do this the only person who can get the profile is the account used to create the profle even after changing permissions on the folders and owenership to administratorsexperience is the thing you get when you do not get what you want

Hi, I need a bit more information on exactly what you require. I volunteer in a school running Server 2008 and we have a split environment (Windows 7 and Windows XP) In our environment there are 44 dekstop hosts and 26 laptop hosts. All of our desktops run Windows XP (SP3) and the laptops run Windows 7 Pro. The XP hosts are for student use (as it is a primary school) we decided to issue a login to the teacher of each class for the student PC's. In a secondary school I would be more inclined to issue actual user accounts to the students. The Windows 7 hosts are teachers laptops and admin staff. Again each teacher has their own login (school\username) The student logins are set up within a user group and subject to a policy group also. This means that when a student logs into any XP host, they are subject to the permissions of the student group If a teacher logs in to a XP host then they are part of the teacher group and have some more permissions that the students would not have. My recommendation would be to set up an active directory account for each computer on the system (e.g. classroom1, classroom2 etc) and run with that. Having several users logging into the same profile will eventually lead to issues with lost files as they will not be able to syncronise properly. Martin

hi and thanks for the help We have a gpo for staff with each staff member having there owen Mandatory Roaming Profile for both XP and Win7 and this works fine but we curently have a gpo for each year group and a Mandatory Roaming Profile for each year group using XP we are upgrading all our client PC's to Windows 7 during the Summer; we have setup a gpo for a test year group but when we come to setup the Mandatory roming profile for it we run in to problems 1. we create the profile by loging in to a PC with a network enabled user with the profile path set in AD (this is the same as the staff) 2. we logout and then change permissions on the created folder and files setting the test year group to full control and the owener to administrator 3. then change the .dat to .man 4.now assign the profile path to other user's in the test year group and try to log on this is the point it fails the users only log on with a temp profile. If we log in as the user we used to create the profile it logs on as long as we set the owner of the profile to him experience is the thing you get when you do not get what you want

ok we are going to do away with group profiles for our students and use regseting pushed out by prefrences in the gpo thanks for the bit of help experience is the thing you get when you do not get what you want