Mandatory user profiles
Mandatory user profiles have been around for some time now, since Windows XP, in fact. For those who aren't familiar with this venerable Windows mechanism, mandatory user profiles are roaming profiles that have been configured with specific settings that are typically not able to be modified by the end user logging on to the Windows machine. Further, any changes to the profile that do get made (for example, malware) are not saved back to the mandatory profile. They are a one-way street of configuration. These are great for education machines: testing centers, writing labs, and also kiosks sometimes fit a mandatory profile requirement.
When a server hosting the mandatory profile is unavailable (network issues, remote ...
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