CIS 170F: Windows 7 Administration

Week 6

User Management
Managing Profiles
Mandatory Profiles

  • A mandatory profile is a profile that cannot be modified. Users can make changes to their desktop settings while they are logged on, but the changes are not saved. This means that if there is a configuration problem, all the user needs to do is log off and log back on to get pristine settings again.

  • You can implement mandatory proflies for a single user that is causing problems or for a group of users. Most times, a single consistent desktop is implemented for a group of users. Most mandatory profiles are implemented as roaming user profiles.

  • To change a profile to a mandatory profile, you rename the file NTUSER.DAT to NTUSER.MAN. After this change is made, user modifications to the profile are not saved.