[Fuzzwah]

I've configured a number of student labs exactly as eloisant explained. In windows we've used folder redirection which has options to disable the "offline files" type features such that it doesn't do any copying of profile files to the local drive.

[dredmorbius]

I'll admit to 1) avoiding Windows admin work to the maximal extent possible and 2) wow, it's been ten years since I've had to do any.

So my information may be somewhat dated. Still generally harder to do this under Windows than Linux.