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Change default profile directory per group

Is it possible to force windows to create profiles for members of one active directory group in a different folder from members in another active directory group? The school here uses DeepFreeze to protect public computers. In a nutshell, DeepFreeze…
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Puppet: Is it possible to remove multiple lines using file_line type?

In past times of the company I work for, someone configured many aliases and exports in /etc/profile. Since then we've implemented Puppet and there's a module which manages the application user exports and aliases. The new module is actually a very…
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AIX update environment after .profile change

I am running AIX 5.3. I have made changes to a user's .profile file (added a couple of environment variables). Is there a command that I can use to re-process the .profile file for a particular user without them having to log out and then back…
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How do you fix Terminal Server when users are unable to surf to HTTPS websites?

One of the Terminal Servers has been plagued by an unusual HTTPS issue. After enough users have logged in and logged out, eventually users can no longer load HTTPS websites. It seems to only affect users with generic mandatory shared…
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windows active directory profile regional

we are an organization with 40k users. This organization is composed of multiples structures. We have one single forest Active Directory with flat DIT. We want to keep this AD in order to authenticate all our computers and users in all sub…
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User Profile keeps loading TEMP Profile

I am having a difficult time with an issue that our support staff won't support (as they will not support Vista). I am able to log into our domain without any issue, however, when I go home and log into my domain account (disconnected), everything…
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How to Load commands into your powershell profile to run on starting powershell

I have found a way to load exchange 2010 powershell into powershell running on a windows xp workstation, however there are a few commands that need to run. I was wondering how I could load them into a profile somehow. These are the commands that I…
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Create Active Directory User Profile

Is there a way I can get a Windows XP computer that is a domain client to create certain user profiles without having to get the user to log in?
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How to automate configuration of roaming profile paths for newly-created domain users in Windows Server 2003?

How do I setup Windows Server 2003 to default newly created domain users to be configured with a roaming profile path? Let's say I have roaming profiles stored at the path \server\profiles. Is there some key or policy that I can set the default…
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Server 2012 R2 RDS Mandatory Profile Start Menu Layout

I'm setting up mandatory profiles in remote desktop server 2012 R2 as we basically have them very locked down with users only able to access shared data and standard applications. However I've setup the start menu layout XML in GPO and it is working…
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Automatically configure Outlook profile for new users on Citrix server

I would like to setup the default profile on our Citrix server so that when a new user is granted access, their profile is already/automatically configured to point towards our exchange server. The correct exchange server address will vary depending…
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Function body defined in /etc/profile appears in shell history on login

We run IBM AIX here (currently 7100-03-03-1415) that is missing a fair amount of the utility preset in other versions of UNIX. One of the things that we need to do on a semi-regular basis is convert from epoch time to a standard timestamp. To…
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Windows Firewall deployed by GPO detecting Public NL

Am struggling with Server 2008 R2 NLA and the Windows Firewall. Currently we are testing rolling out Windows Firewall via GP and have a test server that enables the firewall for Domain, Private and Public. Public and Private are set to lock down…
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Bash Prompt Colors Ubuntu

I am attempting to use a simple shell script on a base Ubuntu 12.04 server install to set prompt colors for users system wide. I would like to have Puppet place the file color.sh in /etc/profile.d/ -- with permission 744 but the file isn't being…
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What is the best way of restricting user profile size in a Terminal Server environment?

From this link I understand that my two options are: NTFS Quotas The "Limit profile size" policy setting I prefer option (1) because I really want to limit the overall size of everyone's profile so a single user can't fill up the C:/ drive.…
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