Personal profiles are useful when you want to allow users to customize their desktop environments. Users of mandatory profiles cannot permanently change their profiles. Although a user with a mandatory profile may be able to change the per-user settings during one session, these changes are not uploaded to the user's profile when the user logs off. When the user logs on again, the profile's original settings are reestablished. Because users cannot change the mandatory profile, more than one user can use the same mandatory profile.
Mandatory profiles are useful for supporting large number of users with identical requirements.
Any changes made to the mandatory profile affect all users of that profile. Imposing some or all of these restrictions is useful in a secure environment. In this environment, you may want to create a single mandatory profile for each type of job and assign that profile to all users who fit the job description. Each user on a WinFrame computer should have a unique home directory . Each user has control over the contents of and access to the home directory.