Assign a single profile to a group of users
Hello, In Windows 7 is it possible to assign a single local profile to a group of users? My research on this topic keeps bringing me to roaming profiles. I/we do not wish to use roaming profiles. I did find one product that claims to be able to do this: User Profile Manager by ForensiT (http://www.forensit.com/desktop-management.html), but that software is quite expensive for our entire enterprise... I'd like to tell Windows, anybody in the group "Domain Users" use local profile "Installer"... Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Justin
January 28th, 2010 5:58pm

Bump... Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Justin
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January 29th, 2010 2:27am

Be patient, this isn't a chat room, sometimes it takes days to receive an answer.MCSE, MCSA, MCDST [If this post helps to resolve your issue, please click the "Mark as Answer" or "Helpful" button at the top of this message. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster.]
January 29th, 2010 4:44am

No, please do not do that. It will cause several problems.
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January 29th, 2010 10:16am

@cdobbs - Ah, yes, I am a little impatient... :) I will keep checking back... Thanks
January 29th, 2010 5:32pm

Justin007 wrote:> Hello,> > In Windows 7 is it possible to assign a single local profile to a group of users?> > My research on this topic keeps bringing me to roaming profiles. I/we do not > wish to use roaming profiles.> > I did find one product that claims to be able to do this: User Profile Manager > by ForensiT (http://www.forensit.com/desktop-management.html), but that software > is quite expensive for our entire enterprise...> > I'd like to tell Windows, anybody in the group "Domain Users" use local profile > "Installer"...> > Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.> > Thanks,> JustinWhy not create a Mandatory User profile?How to customize default user profiles in Windows 7http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973289-- Bruce ChambersHelp us help you:http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htmlhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin FranklinMany people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand RussellThe philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.~ Denis Diderot
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January 29th, 2010 9:04pm

The "How to turn the default user profile into a mandatory user profile in Windows 7" section of the KB article you linked talks about setting up the mandatory profile on a network share... It also says you copy the local "Default User" profile to the network share location... So how do you edit that profile so that the edits are applied to all users that login to that workstation? and in our environment, a technical college, we would need one of these Mandatory Profiles for every machine (2000+), or at the very least for every lab as their is different software and configurations in each lab... All I want to do is tell Windows 7 to use an already existing local profile (Installer), which would be setup the way we want it before imaging the lab, for every user that logs into the machine... Is this possible? ForensiT's "User Profile Manager" product claims it can... So it would seem to me that it's possible somehow... even without that software... Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks, Justin
January 30th, 2010 12:05am

Hi Justin,Have you find anything else? I'm curious also on how to solve this problem without spending lots of money.Thanks,marcelo
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February 1st, 2010 7:36am

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