Mandatory Profiles on a Server 2003 TS Box

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Published on 2012-09-06T10:44:12Z Indexed on 2012/09/07 3:39 UTC
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I have a Windows Server 2003 box which will be acting as a terminal server. It will actually be running Citrix, but I don't believe that to be relevant here.

There has been a request for every user to use a single mandatory profile. I've used mandatory profiles before, but there have been generally different profiles for different users so I've always used the "Terminal Services Profile" tab to good effect.

What I'd like this time is a single setting, such as a Group Policy or similar that simply forces every non-domain admin user logging on to the box into using the mandatory profile. We'll be using Folder Redirection to take care of everything else.

I'm aware of the following GPO:

Computer Policy\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components/Terminal Services

Set path for TS Roaming Profiles

But, as that's a computer policy, will it not apply to all users including administrators? If so, is it possible to exclude admins somehow?

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