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Change location of new users profile on first login

Windows Server 2008 R1 x32 remote desktop.
I wanting to change the location where the profile is created for any "First Time" log on. The server is a fresh install production, I do not want to move the default existing user profiles. Just new ones at first log on.
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A few things, you could set those local profiles to delete in log off (we have this in place in our citrix environment as its best practice) of you could redirect part of the users profile like their desktop, my documents and app data elsewhere?
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Fully agree in most environments. But this is a small business with family employees. the user profile is static after first setup. the only reason this server exist is a 32 bit DOS database program they are trying to move away from. but until then, the profile will be the users working desktop. So to make my life easier for the intern, I figured placing the profile on a different drive. Would be nice to set a registry key and all new profile are created in the new location automatically
Right okay, i believe the only Microsoft supported solution for folder/profile redirection is listed here.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc732275.aspx
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Researching the topic "Move an existing profile", then studying the the registry entries in the "ProfileList" I came up with the Idea and test it on a virtual test Remote Desktop Server with success.