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

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

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 Then I logged off, rescinded the admin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