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Originally Posted by synergy  I would push those requirements through Group Policy and/or run a login script. I'm honestly not that sure about the Default User profile in Vista and only used that in XP for basic things like controlling wallpapers and stuff. Group Policy is more powerful for enforcing the kind of requirements you need in my opinion. Of course this is assuming your on Active Directory and are using Server 03 or 08. |
We do have group policy. A lot of the things I listed are handled by local group policy, such as removing the last user shown at login screen, etc.
However, user profiles are a great way to keep a system in working order. The user's "my documents" folder is automatically routed out to the server, which is housed in each building. So there's no personal data on any of the computers. Then if a user changes something in their profile, where they delete a printer or something, we just simply delete their profile and they log back in. Then they re-generate the default profile. I honestly can't see how there's a better way than that...
But, anyway. I heard a rumor that Vista profiles were different than XP, hence why I was curious...