
The difference between a mandatory and super-mandatory profile is very simple, the super-mandatory profile will prevent logon if the specified profile is unavailable. This is ideal for educational or kiosk scenarios where a default set of configuration items is required for every logon, or even for environments where people are using third-party profile solutions to hold user settings, such as Ivanti UWM or LiquidWare ProfileUnity. Changes to a mandatory profile are discarded at logoff, meaning that any modifications the user has made in-session are purged and the profile deleted. Mandatory profiles (or their bigger brother, super-mandatory profiles) are a variant of the Windows roaming profile that many people still find useful. Further servicing updates (Windows patches) or feature updates (OS upgrades) will possibly invalidate this, although I will strive to keep this article as up-to-date as humanly possible. Note:- this article refers to the mandatory profile creation process on Windows 10 version 1803, fully patched as of.



Microsoft hate mandatory profiles, but they are useful.
