Personalization can work with mandatory profiles. With a clever enough
combination of logon scripts, GPOs, and folder redirection, this is
definitely possible (as we've found with other Office apps like Word, i.e.
copying QAT files to the users application data share). We want to set up
mandatory profiles because roaming profiles do not always clean off the
client machine when the user logs off. So we wind up with loads of "orphaned"
profiles on all of our client PCs. Not to mention how big roaming profiles
can become over a short period of time.

"Roady [MVP]" wrote:

Personalization and Mandatory profiles don't mix. If you want to allow
personalization why are you setting up mandatory profiles in the first
place?

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"Adam" wrote in message
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Hello All,
Hope I'm posting this in the right group.
We have been trying to set up mandatory profiles and folder redirection
via
Group Policy for all of our users, but have had considerable problems
getting
it to work with the latest version of Office and Outlook. The biggest
problem
we are having is in redirecting the appropriate customization files for
Outlook. Basically, we've attempted to re-direct all office settings for
users to an Applicaton Data share on the network. However, when using
mandatory profiles, users are finding that if they customize Outlook,
those
customizations are lost once they log off and back on. Can anyone tell me
how
and where Outlook stores user customization and how we can best re-direct
those settings using Group Policy folder redirection in conjuction with
mandatory profiles? Hope I've provided enough information. Many thanks,
Adam