customizing profile and copying to default

what is the best way to customize a profile and copy that to the default? 

What I have been doing is

login as an admin, customize the desktop, settings, themes, etc... then log out

login as another admin user,  delete the Default user profile under c:\Users\Default

rename the Admin folder to Default

Go under the Default and remove the User.dat file

how else would you do it?

March 17th, 2015 3:25pm

Are you prepairing Windows Image ? 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/973289/en-us

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March 17th, 2015 7:36pm

Hi,

If you need customize a default profile for current system, I think the way you mentioned will be the best option. If you need set Default user profile Registry settings, you could also follow the instructions as mentioned in this article below.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/chad/archive/2012/04/25/tip-49-how-do-you-set-default-user-profile-registry-settings.aspx

If you are preparing image deployment. Usually sysprep is widely used, and also you could customize the Default User Profile by Using CopyProfile.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825135.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Regards

D. Wu

March 19th, 2015 1:07am

Hi,

If you need customize a default profile for current system, I think the way you mentioned will be the easiest option. If you need set Default user profile Registry settings, you could also follow the instructions as mentioned in this article below.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/chad/archive/2012/04/25/tip-49-how-do-you-set-default-user-profile-registry-settings.aspx

If you are preparing image deployment. Usually sysprep is widely used, and also you could customize the Default User Profile by Using CopyProfile.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825135.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Regards

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March 19th, 2015 5:05am

hi

there were some issues with the way I was doing it. renaming the admin user profile to default.

when this happens, and a regular domain user login to their own profile and open anything and go to save as,

It tries to go into the c:\Users\admin

folder. 

how do I prevent this from happening? not sure of other issues 

March 23rd, 2015 5:51pm

Hi JonDoe321,

First, please note: Copy a configured profile over the default profile this is the most common way of changing the default user experience but this approach is unsupported by Microsoft and therefore we recommend against using it.

I am supposing your domain users are in local administrator group, so any change to the system they made might affect other users.

You should create a user account then do a copy of user profile, then rename it over the default one. Dont forget to grant apposite permission for that. Then if the user account is not necessary any more, please delete it at the end.

Regards

D. Wu

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March 26th, 2015 9:24pm

The only supported method for customizing the default user profile in Windows Vista and newer is to use the CopyProfile setting with Sysprep. This is the only way to ensure that all user-specific information is properly removed from the profile and to ensure that new user accounts created from the default user profile are properly directed to their own, unique resources. Your error with new user profiles being directed to the Administrator profiles resources is a perfect example of this.

Once you have created a default user profile through this method and the profile has been cleaned of profile specific elements, that default user profile can be copied and moved to other locations for use as a default user profile. For example, it can be used as a network default user profile, or a mandatory profile.

The link provided by arnavsharma provides the details for all of this.

Brandon
Windows Outreach Team- IT Pro
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April 3rd, 2015 11:24am

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