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[margrave]

The default user profile is the setup that all new logged in users get as their profile to begin with. As it stands without this ability I cannot see deploying this OS in our laboratories where I work successfully. Due to this limitation I cannot recommend upgrading to it.

[Anthonyd]

margrave, on 21 March 2012 - 10:50, said:

Has anyone found a functional method for setting up a default user profile in 8? Without that functionality I cannot see this taking off in an enterprise/educational laboratory setting.

Are you talking about a guest account?

Because any serious company/school is using domain accounts, not local accounts.

[Dot Matrix]

margrave, on 21 March 2012 - 17:06, said:

The default user profile is the setup that all new logged in users get as their profile to begin with. As it stands without this ability I cannot see deploying this OS in our laboratories where I work successfully. Due to this limitation I cannot recommend upgrading to it.

Are you talking about a Live account? Or something else. I'm not quite following.

[margrave]

We are domain based. Have been for years. You can make a user on the system, setup everything up the way they have requested for everything to be installed and configured for one account. Then you would copy that account in the default user profile so that everyone that logs on gets the exact same setup. We do not use roaming profiles as that is not an option. Different labs are to have different software load outs and different settings.

No we cannot use a live account.

Sorry for being confusing.

[Anthonyd]

margrave, on 21 March 2012 - 18:03, said:

We are domain based. Have been for years. You can make a user on the system, setup everything up the way they have requested for everything to be installed and configured for one account. Then you would copy that account in the default user profile so that everyone that logs on gets the exact same setup. We do not use roaming profiles as that is not an option. Different labs are to have different software load outs and different settings.

No we cannot use a live account.

Sorry for being confusing.

What's blocking you from doing it on Windows 8? Because c:\users\default is still here.

[margrave]

You cannot copy one profile into that path. There are register entries that will mess up things. For win7 we've been using windows enabler and the control panel users copy profile option. That has been removed from 8 making it more enterprise unfriendly. As it stands the 'folder copy and rename method' does not work fully either. Currently we're planning on skipping 8 because it is not enterprise ready it seems.

[Anthonyd]

Do you mind posting a screenshot of the "copy user" screen?

[margrave]

Sure.

This is from Windows 7 and I circled the now missing button.

http://dl.dropbox.co...in/profiles.png

[efjay]

margrave, on 21 March 2012 - 19:15, said:

You cannot copy one profile into that path. There are register entries that will mess up things. For win7 we've been using windows enabler and the control panel users copy profile option. That has been removed from 8 making it more enterprise unfriendly. As it stands the 'folder copy and rename method' does not work fully either. Currently we're planning on skipping 8 because it is not enterprise ready it seems.

Maybe you should base your decision on the Enterprise version, not a beta with incomplete functionality?

[margrave]

Here's hoping there is an enterprise version.

[+Mephistopheles]

[Muhammad Farrukh]

lol

[Anthonyd]

Mephistopheles, on 26 March 2012 - 10:04, said:

<you mad metro haters?.jpg>

We totally need more pics/video like that;

[techguy77]

Mephistopheles, on 26 March 2012 - 10:04, said:

It is good you showed this picture because visually shows Windows 8 broken work flow....bottom line nonsense.

[Dot Matrix]

techguy77, on 26 March 2012 - 14:05, said:

It is good you showed this picture because visually shows Windows 8 broken work flow....bottom line nonsense.

I don't see any broken workflow there...