Using a master NTUSER file

[Guest Blackberry]

Hi All

 

I work in a number of schools and I have to set up (too) many PCs in the

same standard form. Because 99% of these are Win2K3 clients we are talking

numerous user profiles as well, so I currently log on as one user, set the

Desktop, Screensaveer, etc stuff up and then copy the NTUSER file from this

account to the default user so that every user profile that logs on has this

style. This seems to work fine, but I would now like to take this a step

further and keep of a copy of this NTUSER file so that on a new machine I

simply drop this into the default user folder straight away.

 

My question is, am I allowed to do this from one machine to another or will

it screw it up? Although 99% of our machines are XP Pro SP2, if I dropped

my master NTUSER file into a Win XP Home or Win XP Pro SP1 PC would it screw

things up?

 

Thanks

[Guest Malke]

Re: Using a master NTUSER file

 

Blackberry wrote:

> Hi All

>

> I work in a number of schools and I have to set up (too) many PCs in the

> same standard form. Because 99% of these are Win2K3 clients we are talking

> numerous user profiles as well, so I currently log on as one user, set the

> Desktop, Screensaveer, etc stuff up and then copy the NTUSER file from this

> account to the default user so that every user profile that logs on has this

> style. This seems to work fine, but I would now like to take this a step

> further and keep of a copy of this NTUSER file so that on a new machine I

> simply drop this into the default user folder straight away.

>

> My question is, am I allowed to do this from one machine to another or will

> it screw it up? Although 99% of our machines are XP Pro SP2, if I dropped

> my master NTUSER file into a Win XP Home or Win XP Pro SP1 PC would it screw

> things up?

 

1. You should be using imaging heavily to support the workstations and

server. I prefer Acronis enterprise software; some people like Symantec

Ghost.

 

2. How To Create a Custom Default User Profile -

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=319974

Create an XP Pro Mandatory User Profile on the Local Machine -

http://www.tweakxp.com/article139898.aspx

How To Assign a Mandatory User Profile in Windows XP -

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307800&sd=tech

 

 

Malke

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