bigdogchris
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For Win XP.
Normally, when a user logs into the domain on a new machine they have never used, it creates a user account and everything is set to default, minus any policy settings.
What I'm looking for is a way to confingure a station so that whoever logs into the domain, gets the same identical desktop, that is a copy of the desktop I set up on that machine. This even includes recently opened items on the Start Menu. (that image will then be deployed to multiple identical shared stations). I'm not asking for folder redirection or anything related to bringing down the user profile on each log in because this is not what I'm talking about.
They do this at my school and no one seems to be able to tell me what they are using to do this. The closest answer I've got is "it's their disk imaging system" and I think that person believes I'm totally clueless to what I'm talking about.
For an example.
A workstation has a local user profile called 'Config1'.
Tom logs into workstation 1 with his domain username Tom, it creates and account called 'Tom'
Toms account is identical to Config1
He logs out
Susan logs into workstation 1 with her domain username Susan, it creates an account called 'Susan'
Susans account is identical to Config1
etc. etc. etc.
Is there some sort of AD setting that does this or is there som type of software installed that forces the user accounts to be a copy of one already configured?
I also will use a disk freezing software so when the machines are rebooted they are cleared. (they are shared machines obviously).
Normally, when a user logs into the domain on a new machine they have never used, it creates a user account and everything is set to default, minus any policy settings.
What I'm looking for is a way to confingure a station so that whoever logs into the domain, gets the same identical desktop, that is a copy of the desktop I set up on that machine. This even includes recently opened items on the Start Menu. (that image will then be deployed to multiple identical shared stations). I'm not asking for folder redirection or anything related to bringing down the user profile on each log in because this is not what I'm talking about.
They do this at my school and no one seems to be able to tell me what they are using to do this. The closest answer I've got is "it's their disk imaging system" and I think that person believes I'm totally clueless to what I'm talking about.
For an example.
A workstation has a local user profile called 'Config1'.
Tom logs into workstation 1 with his domain username Tom, it creates and account called 'Tom'
Toms account is identical to Config1
He logs out
Susan logs into workstation 1 with her domain username Susan, it creates an account called 'Susan'
Susans account is identical to Config1
etc. etc. etc.
Is there some sort of AD setting that does this or is there som type of software installed that forces the user accounts to be a copy of one already configured?
I also will use a disk freezing software so when the machines are rebooted they are cleared. (they are shared machines obviously).