We are a small Charter High school with about 100 students. Running a
Server 2003 AD domain.

All of the student computers have Centurions on them - a hardware
device that prevents permanent changes to the hard drive - a reboot
puts them back to how I have them set up. This means that every time a
students starts Microsoft Office the computer believes that this is
the first time that user has started Office, and it runs the
configuration process. Is there any way (a registry key perhaps) to
fool Office into believing that this has already been done?

Thanks!

Hi,

If I'm reading that right then no, everytime the machine is restarted it
removes the local user profiles, when the user logs on a new one is created
and then office is configured for use by that user.

When you restart the machine it's as if that user never existed so Office
has to be configured again for that user on first logon.

Is this correct?

Only caveat I can think of is if your using roaming profiles, then not
everything roams the Local Settings folder being one of these none roaming
folders.

If this is the case use folder redirection group policies to move the local
settings folders for the users to a network share (different to the profiles
share if using roaming profiles). I think this would be the only way of
ensuring a consistant experience for your users.

Hope this helps.



Sean

"RCCHS network admin" <inbflat@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Mar 29, 12:31 am, "Sean" <s...@nospam.com> wrote:
That is correct.
Hmm, will have to think about this.....

Thanks for the tips!

Barb