user profiles James Bond <jbond[ at ]007.com> 12/2/2008 8:36:56 AM I am about to ghost a Vista image to be used as my SOE. In the past I have copied the admin users profile to default user to ensure all icons are present and available. What needs to be done with Vista to ensure any user logging in can use all apps and has icons in appropriate places. Thanks.

Re: user profiles Dick D. <dick[ at ]dastardly.net> 12/2/2008 8:58:54 AM James Bond <jbond[ at ]007.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I am about to ghost a Vista image to be used as my SOE. WTF is "SOE"?

Re: user profiles James Bond <jbond[ at ]007.com> 12/2/2008 10:20:54 AM Dick D. wrote: [Quoted Text] > James Bond <jbond[ at ]007.com> wrote: > >> I am about to ghost a Vista image to be used as my SOE. > > WTF is "SOE"? standard operating environment... an image for distribution

Re: user profiles "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <Zaphod.Arisztid.Beeblebrox[ at ]gmail.com> 12/2/2008 1:02:04 PM "James Bond" <jbond[ at ]007.com> wrote in message news:erwmpjFVJHA.1220[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I am about to ghost a Vista image to be used as my SOE. > > In the past I have copied the admin users profile to default user to > ensure all icons are present and available. > > What needs to be done with Vista to ensure any user logging in can use > all apps and has icons in appropriate places. > If you are using sysprep, set up the admin user profile the way you want it and make sure that in your sysprep.xml you set CopyProfile to true in the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup componenet in the specialize pass, something like this: <settings pass="specialize"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile> </component> If you are using some other method, you could try copying the profile to the default user profile, but I don't know if there are any gotchas with that method... -- Zaphod No matter where you go, there you are!

Re: user profiles James Bond <jbond[ at ]007.com> 12/2/2008 1:14:58 PM We dont have the administrator account enabled and are just using a standard domain user to setup all the apps. How does it know to use this user or can I specify ? THis user is a local administrator, along with a few other users on the local system which have profiles. we are using sysprep by the way, thanks, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: [Quoted Text] > "James Bond" <jbond[ at ]007.com> wrote in message > news:erwmpjFVJHA.1220[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> I am about to ghost a Vista image to be used as my SOE. >> >> In the past I have copied the admin users profile to default user to >> ensure all icons are present and available. >> >> What needs to be done with Vista to ensure any user logging in can use >> all apps and has icons in appropriate places. >> > > If you are using sysprep, set up the admin user profile the way you want > it and make sure that in your sysprep.xml you set CopyProfile to true in > the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup componenet in the specialize pass, > something like this: > > <settings pass="specialize"> > <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" > processorArchitecture="x86" > publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" > language="neutral" > versionScope="nonSxS" > xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> > <CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile> > </component> > > If you are using some other method, you could try copying the profile to > the default user profile, but I don't know if there are any gotchas with > that method... >

Re: user profiles "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <Zaphod.Arisztid.Beeblebrox[ at ]gmail.com> 12/3/2008 1:35:18 PM "James Bond" <jbond[ at ]007.com> wrote in message news:ubGgB$HVJHA.4900[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> "James Bond" <jbond[ at ]007.com> wrote in message >> news:erwmpjFVJHA.1220[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>> I am about to ghost a Vista image to be used as my SOE. >>> >>> In the past I have copied the admin users profile to default user to >>> ensure all icons are present and available. >>> >>> What needs to be done with Vista to ensure any user logging in can >>> use all apps and has icons in appropriate places. >>> >> >> If you are using sysprep, set up the admin user profile the way you >> want it and make sure that in your sysprep.xml you set CopyProfile to >> true in the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup componenet in the >> specialize pass, something like this: >> >> <settings pass="specialize"> >> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" >> processorArchitecture="x86" >> publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" >> language="neutral" >> versionScope="nonSxS" >> >> xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" >> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> >> <CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile> >> </component> >> >> If you are using some other method, you could try copying the profile >> to the default user profile, but I don't know if there are any >> gotchas with that method... >> > We dont have the administrator account enabled and are just using a > standard domain user to setup all the apps. How does it know to use > this user or can I specify ? > > THis user is a local administrator, along with a few other users on > the local system which have profiles. > > > we are using sysprep by the way, > As I understand it, it copies the profile of the account that is used to run sysprep. It doesn't have to be the Administrator account, but it does have to be a local administrator (but that's just to be able to run sysprep I think). -- Zaphod No matter where you go, there you are!