We are currently running Windows XP SP3 clients with a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain. We are migrating our estate to Windows 7 and want to give the users a "clean slate" by giving them a brand new profile.
Our user's roaming profiles are located in a folder called XPProfile on their personal network drive, example \\server1\user1$
When they log onto a Windows 7 device, it creates a .V2 profile on both the client and their home drive (in our case, XPProfile.V2). This profile contains all the UI customisations, shortcuts, etc. from Windows XP which we don't want to bring across to the new OS.
Is there any way we can prevent these settings being migrated across whilst still creating the new profile when they first log on?
Our first obvious problem is that the user profile attribute on the users account will be set to use the old profile directory (\\server1\user1$\XPProfile). Does this require changing for all users or can we
do it another way?
Thanks in advance