Setting up Roaming Profiles?

Question

How do I set up Roaming Profiles?

I'm currently running a Microsoft Server 2008 R2 as the Domain Controller (where I want the user's profiles also to be held). I also already have AD set up.

I've tried setting a Roaming Profile up before, however once a user kept signing in it stated they were using a temp profile.

Answer 1

How did you setup the profile in the first place?? Very Very important information. Otherwise, we have to ask, "Did you turn on the DC?" :)

To create a roaming profile: Open Active Directory Users and Computers and connect to the Domain Controller. Or just login to the DC itself and open the AD Users and Computer

1. Right-click the user account and then choose Properties => Profiles.

2. Type the path into Profile path, like \\Server\Share\User's Romaning profile folder

3. Make sure the share is accessible to that User also.

You can also get a log of the User's login and see where it breaks.

Look under their registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.

Make an Reg_DWORD called UserEnvDebugLevel and set it to HEX 0x30002.