Users Workstation

billybob01

I need to find a way whereby whatever changes a user makes to their machine, when they log back in it reverts back to a default setup, i know Mandatory profiles will do this but the users install software as well and i dont any software that the user installs on the machine. Any ideas?

Slowhand

The only way to do that, would be to use mandatory profiles, as you said, as well as use Group Policy to prevent the users from installing the software to begin with.

shednik

for an users you would like to eliminate installs you could push out a policy like slowhand said, as well as applications like deep freeze where the PC will revert back after a reboot, only way to install something is to disable the service.

theseman

Deepfreeze came to my mind as well, you might want to check it out.

billybob01

never heard of deep freeze, i`ll check it out, i was toying with the idea of using vmware player but still trying to figure that one out.

SRTMCSE

theseman wrote:

Deepfreeze came to my mind as well, you might want to check it out.

deepfreeze works really well. we use it on our kiosks combined with group policies, the machines are locked down real tight. they use deep freeze at the comm. college i go to and it works great for them as well. all changes made to the pc are undone on the next reboot, so we schedule a nightly reboot to each of these machines.

but if you're on a budget gpo's combined w/ mandatory profiles should do the trick. never used man. profiles, w/ the exception of in my mcse studies tho.

blargoe

Take away their Admin rights