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    • thanksajdotcom
      thanksajdotcom last edited by

      So I'm helping a user on SW with a printer issue and he mentioned how he sets up the default profile on each computer so that when any user logs in, it pulls the settings from the default user profile. Now, he just migrated these machines (running P4 CPUs!) from XP to 7. My question is: with the power of GPO starting in Server 2008 and up combined with Windows 7 and up, is this something that needs to be done? Is there any advantage to doing this or abilities you have that you can't get from using just GPO?

      Thanks,
      A.J.

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      • Dashrender
        Dashrender last edited by

        You can definitely do a lot from GPO, but somethings are just easier to do from the default profile.

        Also, having the GPOs running the same things over and over again can in some cases slow the login times down a lot.

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        • IRJ
          IRJ @thanksajdotcom last edited by

          @thanksaj said:

          with the power of GPO starting in Server 2008

          GPO existed long before 2008. Back in the NT and 2000 days everything was done with startup and login scripts. 2008 offers the same things you could do with scripting.

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          • coliver
            coliver @IRJ last edited by

            @IRJ said:

            @thanksaj said:

            with the power of GPO starting in Server 2008

            GPO existed long before 2008. Back in the NT and 2000 days everything was done with startup and login scripts. 2008 offers the same things you could do with scripting.

            I think he meant the added functionality that 2008 GPO introduced which didn't exist or were extremely limited previously.

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            • thanksajdotcom
              thanksajdotcom @coliver last edited by

              @coliver said:

              @IRJ said:

              @thanksaj said:

              with the power of GPO starting in Server 2008

              GPO existed long before 2008. Back in the NT and 2000 days everything was done with startup and login scripts. 2008 offers the same things you could do with scripting.

              I think he meant the added functionality that 2008 GPO introduced which didn't exist or were extremely limited previously.

              Basically. Starting in 2008, so many things that you had to script before with batch or VBscript are now just options in GPO. That was my point. Not so much that there are tons of new capabilities, but that these features are so much simpler to implement.

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              • gjacobse
                gjacobse last edited by

                I'm glad I read this - Pull settings from the default profile? I'll have to look into this.

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                • IRJ
                  IRJ last edited by

                  This should be baked into your images

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                  • thanksajdotcom
                    thanksajdotcom @IRJ last edited by

                    @IRJ said:

                    This should be baked into your images

                    Apparently the guy who was doing this wasn't the one who made the image

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                    • IRJ
                      IRJ @thanksajdotcom last edited by

                      @thanksaj said:

                      @IRJ said:

                      This should be baked into your images

                      Apparently the guy who was doing this wasn't the one who made the image

                      What exactly do is he do to setup the default profile? This will give you the answer if it can be done with GPO. Adding things like desktop icons are easy via GPO

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                      • thanksajdotcom
                        thanksajdotcom @IRJ last edited by

                        @IRJ said:

                        @thanksaj said:

                        @IRJ said:

                        This should be baked into your images

                        Apparently the guy who was doing this wasn't the one who made the image

                        What exactly do is he do to setup the default profile? This will give you the answer if it can be done with GPO. Adding things like desktop icons are easy via GPO

                        Exactly.

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                        • PSX_Defector
                          PSX_Defector last edited by

                          Just throw the shit into the default profile folder under the users directory. That's easy enough for things like desktop links and such.

                          Old school way would be to create a "default profile" with all the permissions set and such, rename the old one and put the new one in its place.

                          Assuming similar hardware and software configurations, it can be pushed via GPO or good old fashioned copy/paste to others via SMB.

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                          • IRJ
                            IRJ @thanksajdotcom last edited by

                            @thanksaj said:

                            @IRJ said:

                            @thanksaj said:

                            @IRJ said:

                            This should be baked into your images

                            Apparently the guy who was doing this wasn't the one who made the image

                            What exactly do is he do to setup the default profile? This will give you the answer if it can be done with GPO. Adding things like desktop icons are easy via GPO

                            Exactly.

                            You are agreeing with me, but you never answered my question.... 😛

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                            • thanksajdotcom
                              thanksajdotcom @PSX_Defector last edited by

                              @PSX_Defector said:

                              Just throw the shit into the default profile folder under the users directory. That's easy enough for things like desktop links and such.

                              Old school way would be to create a "default profile" with all the permissions set and such, rename the old one and put the new one in its place.

                              Assuming similar hardware and software configurations, it can be pushed via GPO or good old fashioned copy/paste to others via SMB.

                              This guy was doing permissions and renaming the old one, etc. I was just wondering if in the age we're in and with the capabilities of GPO if this was really necessary anymore...

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                              • thanksajdotcom
                                thanksajdotcom @IRJ last edited by

                                @IRJ said:

                                @thanksaj said:

                                @IRJ said:

                                @thanksaj said:

                                @IRJ said:

                                This should be baked into your images

                                Apparently the guy who was doing this wasn't the one who made the image

                                What exactly do is he do to setup the default profile? This will give you the answer if it can be done with GPO. Adding things like desktop icons are easy via GPO

                                Exactly.

                                You are agreeing with me, but you never answered my question.... 😛

                                Not sure on all exact settings. Is there anything that you'd be limited to doing this way that can't be done via GPO?

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