This blog is a quick note to summarize all the considerations I faced when (re)introducing Mandatory Profiles for a very basic (SMB) Citrix XenApp implementation.
First of all I needed to create a Mandatory Profile on Windows Server 2008 R2, using the following instructions from Mark Swinkels, which stated the following actions:
- Make a local user on the server (Windows Server 2008 R2 in my environment)
- Make the user member of the local administrators group on your server
- Login in with this user and customize for example the start menu
- Logoff and login again with an administrator account
- Create a share on your file server. For example \\[servername]\TSmandatory
(I used a local folder on the XenApp server) - For share permissions choose Everyone Full Control, NTFS permissions choose Authenticated Users Read
- Turn off Caching on this share
- Copy the complete template folder from the C:\Users directory to the new TSmandatory share
- Rename the template folder to TSmandatory.V2