PROFILES

Profiles

Profiles are used for providing basic user environment needs

Environment needs can be

Desktop settings

Startup applications

N/w connectivity.

Profile is responsible for providing the initial desktop environment needs with the help of desktop folder, favorites, cookies, my documents, start menu, and Internet settings, n/w connections and etc.

When a user logs in for the first time the user will be loaded with a default user profile.

Default user profile is located under

C:\documents and settings\default user

Types of profiles:

Local profile

Roaming profile

Mandatory profile

Local profile: It is a profile loaded for the user and saved in the local hard drive where the user works.

And profile will be saved when a user logs off

Local profiles are limited only to the machine where they are saved.

A user with a local profile will not be loaded with a network profile when he logs on from another machine.

Verifying the type of the profile:

My computer

Properties

Advanced

User profile – settings

Roaming Profile: It is a profile, which is saved in the shared folder on the server. Hence available in the entire network.

Roaming profile is a n/w profile which is available in the entire network. As a result when a user logs in from any machine in the n/e he will be loaded with a roaming.

Creating a roaming profile:

On DC

Create a user A/C

Create a folder

And share it and give full control permission for everyone

Start >P>ADUC

Double click the user

Profile

Profile path ex: \\sys1\profile\username

Apply – ok

Move on to member server

Log in as user

My computer

Properties

Advanced-profile settings-you should notice “roaming profile”.

Mandatory Profile: Mandatory Profile is a profile used for controlling desktop environment setting especially used for restricting user from saving user data, setting, and configuration on the desktop.

It is a type of roaming profile but settings are not saved  when a user logs off.

Changes will be available only for the session where user is active. (Active session)

Creating a mandatory profile:

Open the profiles folder you’ve created for roaming

There will be a user folder

Take the ownership of the folder of the user

Right click on the folder properties

Security – ok – advanced

Owner – administrators

Replace owner on sub >apply – ok

Open the folder

Rename the file

Ntuser.dat to ntuser.man

Back

Give back the permission (ownership)

Folder

Properties

Security – advanced

Check the box Allow inheritable

Check - Replace permission entries on all

Apply – ok

Verifying:

Move on to client machine

Login as user

Make some desktop changes

Create a folder or delete a folder

For removing mandatory profile just rename ntuser.man to ntuser.dat