What does "Use mandatory profiles on the RD Session Host server" do?

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Published on 2012-06-06T15:29:14Z Indexed on 2012/06/06 16:42 UTC
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The description for "Use mandatory profiles on the RD Session Host server" is a little ambiguous:

This policy setting allows you to specify whether Remote Desktop Services uses a mandatory profile for all users connecting remotely to the RD Session Host server.

If you enable this policy setting, Remote Desktop Services uses the path specified in the Set path for Remote Desktop Services Roaming User Profile policy setting as the root folder for the mandatory user profile. All users connecting remotely to the RD Session Host server use the same user profile.

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, mandatory user profiles are not used by users connecting remotely to the RD Session Host server.

I have a situation where only some users need to use mandatory profiles for logging in to a Remote Desktop Session Host. If I have some users with ntuser.dat and some users ntuser.man in their roaming profile what will RD Session Host do

  1. To a user who has ntuser.man in their roaming profile and has the setting set to Disabled?
  2. To a user who has ntuser.dat in their roaming profile and has the setting set to Enabled?

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