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You create a &quot;Template user&quot; In AD and then you new users you create by doing a right click on the template user and selecting COPY.<br />
As for additional printers and drives, use group policies.
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You create a "Template user" In AD and then you new users you create by doing a right click on the template user and selecting COPY.
As for additional printers and drives, use group policies.

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Thank you for your responses. I am going to work with this over the next several days and review the link provided.<br />

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Thank you for your responses. I am going to work with this over the next several days and review the link provided.


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Thank you. Your advice helped accomplish the task!
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Thank you. Your advice helped accomplish the task!

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Good afternoon.<br />
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I have seen on some servers (Windows 2003 &amp;&nbsp;3008) where pre-defined variables are applied when a new user account is created. Is there a resource available that can show how this can be done? I'd like to have shared drives and printers automatically created with the user account. I'd also like to know if it's possible to apply new variables (such as a new printer) to user profiles so that manual intervention is not necessary.<br />
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Thanks in advance for any suggestions on where I can start to learn how to accomplish this task.<br />

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Good afternoon.

I have seen on some servers (Windows 2003 & 3008) where pre-defined variables are applied when a new user account is created. Is there a resource available that can show how this can be done? I'd like to have shared drives and printers automatically created with the user account. I'd also like to know if it's possible to apply new variables (such as a new printer) to user profiles so that manual intervention is not necessary.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions on where I can start to learn how to accomplish this task.


How to set new user environment variables such as mapped drives &amp; printers to be applied upon account creation.

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

How to set new user environment variables such as mapped drives &amp; printers to be applied upon account creation.

How to set new user environment variables such as mapped drives & printers to be applied upon account creation.