CopyProfile (Standard 7 Package Reference)

7/8/2014

The CopyProfile setting enables you to customize a user profile and use it as the default user profile. Windows uses the default user profile as a template to assign a profile to each new user.

To customize the default user profile:

1. On the technician computer, create a new answer file (Example: Unattend.xml)

2. Set CopyProfile to true in the Unattend.xml file.

3. Copy the file to the reference computer.

4. On the reference computer, log on as a user whose profile you can customize (for example, the built-in administrator account).

5. Customize the desired user-profile settings.

6. Run sysprep /generalize /unattend:unattend.xml.

   During the generalize configuration pass, the customized user profile settings are copied to the default user profile. All subsequent user accounts that are created will have the customizations that you have set. For details about the Sysprep command, see the Sysprep Technical Reference.

Important

The built-in administrator account profile is deleted and recreated when you perform a clean Windows installation, or run the Sysprep tool. The CopyProfile setting is processed before the built-in administrator account is deleted, so any customizations that you make should appear in new user account profiles, including the new built-in administrator account profile.

Values

true	Specifies that the currently logged-on user profile is copied. Set to true only if there are customizations made to the logged-on user profile that you need to apply to all new users.
false	Specifies that the currently logged-on user profile is not copied.

Valid Passes

specialize