Hi,

I have a need to setup a TS for remote access and have applied GPO to the accounts that logon so they are restricted them where possible.  I have mandatory profiles for these users and they can logon without problems.   My issue is I want to setup outlook on a per user basis for all of these users.  I have the applications data path redirected so each user has their own however I think outlook uses local settings.  There is no local settings in the mandatory profile and it does create and continue using a profile it creates in the docs and settings folder.

If I logoff and back on with a user it loses all settings (like the outlook profile and silly things like the username when first using word etc)  Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

cheers

Andy 

One of the GPO's stops the ability to change user settings ?

I know there is one where it doesnt save settings, but not sure if that includes Outlook.

There is one in Desktop but it implies it's only things like menu bars etc.
Will try it anway tho

cheers 

Hey Andy,

What you need to do is install Outlook using a transform file and in that file specify %username% for the Outlook profile settings.  There is a tool in the Office Resource kit that will walk you through creating a MST file.

Rod

Hi Rod, Nice to see you again.

Would this just recreate it each time though, I want to keep the settings there?
 

maybe I am looking at this the wrong way?

I would prefer to create a static profile for each group that logs on.  Their profile needs to be built from this (desktop background etc) but I would like then to be able to save their settings and so forth.

Is it possible to overwrite the default user profile with a modified one?  Or even better use GPO/registry to change where it pulls the default user profile from?

Does that make sense? 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319974

worth a try on 2003?

It seems to work.

I have redirected the start menu so I can remove most of the entries in the default profile. I set the permissions to admin full, system full and domain user read.

Desktop composition stays and any settings for the profile are remembered