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Office XP with manditory profiles
Hi,
I've got a lab of 6 Windows XP machines with Office XP. The machines are in a Windows 2003 AD Domain. The users all use a roaming mandatory profile (directory on the server ends in .man and ntuser.dat is renamed to ntuser.man). I can't get Office to retain settings such as macro security, plus, every time a user opens an application it prompts for the user name and initials. How can I get it to remember the settings and the generic user name I supply. I tried making the profile not be mandatory, making the changes, then returning it to being mandatory but that didn't work. Thanks, Mark |
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Mark, it sounds like your profiles are not unloading properly. Look at your
client machines event logs and see if there are any userenv events as described in http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;837115 Also, in that article is a utility called uphclean which should help you resolve this issue. "Mark Warbeck" wrote: Hi I've got a lab of 6 Windows XP machines with Office XP. The machines are in a Windows 2003 AD Domain. The users all use a roaming mandatory profile (directory on the server ends in .man and ntuser.dat is renamed to ntuser.man). I can't get Office to retain settings such as macro security, plus, every time a user opens an application it prompts for the user name and initials. How can I get it to remember the settings and the generic user name I supply. I tried making the profile not be mandatory, making the changes, then returning it to being mandatory but that didn't work. Thanks, Mark |
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No Joy. I installed the tool. Then I granted the user I log on as to
create the profile administrative rights. Set the profile so it's not mandatory. I logged on, ran the Office applications, entered the user name and made setting changes. Then I logged off, rescinded the admin rights, renamed the profile directory and dat file so it's mandatory again. Logged on and when trying to start Word I get the installer progress bar then Word opens and asks for the user name and initials. So frustrating! I can't figure out what I'm missing here. Brandon Smith wrote: Mark, it sounds like your profiles are not unloading properly. Look at your client machines event logs and see if there are any userenv events as described in http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;837115 Also, in that article is a utility called uphclean which should help you resolve this issue. "Mark Warbeck" wrote: Hi I've got a lab of 6 Windows XP machines with Office XP. The machines are in a Windows 2003 AD Domain. The users all use a roaming mandatory profile (directory on the server ends in .man and ntuser.dat is renamed to ntuser.man). I can't get Office to retain settings such as macro security, plus, every time a user opens an application it prompts for the user name and initials. How can I get it to remember the settings and the generic user name I supply. I tried making the profile not be mandatory, making the changes, then returning it to being mandatory but that didn't work. Thanks, Mark |
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