Profiles for teacher laptops?

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Neil B

Advice please on setting up profiles and staff laptops?
We have Win 2003 server, 60 Win2000 network clients and 20 XP Pro
staff laptops.
We currently use mandatory profiles for students and staff.
The laptops can be logged onto with 'offnetwork' local administrator
user when at home. The offnetwork My Documents folder is on a second
partition which is accessible once back on the network under the
mandatory profile. It works, but are there any other suggestions?
Thanks
Neil B
Mayfield Middle School UK
 
The way I do it is via folder redirection. Both XP and 2000 cache the user's
domain credentials after they first log on to the domain so there is no need
for a separate logon for use at home. They can use their domain username and
password even though they aren;t connected to the network. If you use group
policy to redirect their "My Documents" to an appropriate place on the
server you can use "Offline folders" to synchronise the laptop and network
data every time they connect to the network. As far as the user is concerned
they log on and access their files in just the same way at home or school.

If the laptop is predominantly used by one user I use a group policy to
prevent laptops from using the mandatory profile. I grant the teacher's
domain account local admin rights on the laptop. That way teachers can
install stuff and 'customise' their machine 'till their heart's content. If
they screw it up I just re-image it back to a standard build (data is safe
on the server and will synchronises automatically on next log on).
 
SteveT said:
The way I do it is via folder redirection. Both XP and 2000 cache the user's
domain credentials after they first log on to the domain so there is no need
for a separate logon for use at home. They can use their domain username and
password even though they aren;t connected to the network. If you use group
policy to redirect their "My Documents" to an appropriate place on the
server you can use "Offline folders" to synchronise the laptop and network
data every time they connect to the network. As far as the user is concerned
they log on and access their files in just the same way at home or school.

If the laptop is predominantly used by one user I use a group policy to
prevent laptops from using the mandatory profile. I grant the teacher's
domain account local admin rights on the laptop. That way teachers can
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thanks Steve
If you add the domain account into the laptop Users and set them as
Administrators, won't that make them Domain Administrators?
 
thanks Steve
If you add the domain account into the laptop Users and set them as
Administrators, won't that make them Domain Administrators?
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No, not if you go to the laptop's local users and groups and add their
domain account to the local administrators group. The person would be just a
user on the domain and an administrator only on the laptop.
 
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