Know where the roaming profile is stored in a corporate environment

Question

Due to some issue (items reappearing after being deleted), I'd like to check the content of my remotely-stored roaming profile.

Is the path stored somewhere locally? I'm not a domain admin, and I don't have direct access to the Active Directory.

Thanks!

Answer 1

• open command promtp. (start-> Rn-> CMD)
• type - set u (it will give you the profile path including roaming profile path).
• you should be able to browse to that path on the network.

Good Luck

Answer 2

If (by some chance) you know the full Active Directory object name for your account, then you could retrieve the details with a script like this:

Set objUser = GetObject ("LDAP://cn=DoeJ,ou=management,dc=fabrikam,dc=com")
objUser.GetInfo

strProfilePath = objUser.Get("profilePath")
strScriptPath = objUser.Get("scriptPath")
strHomeDirectory = objUser.Get("homeDirectory")
strHomeDrive = objUser.Get("homeDrive")

WScript.echo "profilePath: " & strProfilePath
WScript.echo "scriptPath: " & strScriptPath
WScript.echo "homeDirectory: " & strHomeDirectory
WScript.echo "homeDrive: " & strHomeDrive

Save that as something like "viewprofile.vbs" then run from a command line with:

cscript viewprofile.vbs

As for finding the full name of your active directory object, I honestly don't know how you'd do that without enough access to browse AD, or asking an admin to tell you (can't see how telling you the detail of your own account would be a security breach).

Answer 3

Your profile is stored on the AD server so if you cant access that, then you have no way of seeing the contents of your profile