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Raw hardware utilization profiling

Looking for a way to profile hardware utilization. While it'd be nice to correlate the utilization to the cause of the hardware being use, at this point I'm more interested in as detailed as possible ...
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Storing user profile in a corporate environment. Where, how and why?

I'm a programmer and don't know much about Active Directory, LDAP, etc. What I'm trying to build is some kind of profile web page for each employee where I work. Something similar to this : http://...
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What are the functional differences between .profile .bash_profile and .bashrc

What are the functional differences between the .profile, .bash_profile and .bashrc files?
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Create An AD User Profile

I am new to server management. I have a set of AD users. I can log on as each user, (their name is in the start menu), but they always each get the same profile (shared My Documents (H:/) etc). What ...
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Temp Profile Loading on computer

I am getting these errors on several different users and computers. Any ideas? {Event Type: Error Event Source: Userenv Event Category: None Event ID: 1515 Date: 2/28/2011 Time: 8:...
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EC2 SSH Bash Profile

I've set up an Ubuntu image on EC2 and everything is working great. However, when I SSH onto the server my terminal prompt is always $ and several features I'm used to in the default Ubuntu terminal (...
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Migrating user (developer) profile from XP to NT6 (Vista,7) ~ What do I need to be mindful of?

If it's a dupe, lemme know and redirect me and I'm on my way guys. I'm a dev on Visual Studio, I have 2005, 2008 and 2010 installed atm, along with VB6, and SqlServer Dev 2005, 2008 installed as well,...
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Change default profile directory per group

Is it possible to force windows to create profiles for members of one active directory group in a different folder from members in another active directory group? The school here uses DeepFreeze to ...
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Which version of Windows Server 2008?

We are looking into getting a server as we currently have only a workgroup and over 30 users and 25 workstations. We want to setup a domain so we can setup group policies for everyone without ...
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Samba3 PDC with single user profile per OS

I would like to set up a Samba3 PDC on an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS box for Windows XP and Windows 7 Clients. For my application I do not really need the whole profile overhead a normal Windows domain network ...
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How can I reuse a local profile when changing domains?

Client is XP Pro. The user was connected to one domain and had his profile fine-tuned for his needs (Word, Outlook, Excel with lots of rules/customizations/forms, plus customized desktop, of course). ...
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Store "Documents and Settings" on a different drive. Windows 2003 Terminal Server

The situation is this. I have 2 terminal servers in an estate with lots and lots of servers. The TS's can be used by anyone and will primarily be used for remote working (via a VPN solution). The ...
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Give a domain group full control to the profile folders of all servers and workstations

I have a domain group (called GSG_TECH_USER) which need "full control" right to the folder "document & setting" of all servers and workstation. I made a test with this configuration: On a ...
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Reinitialize /etc/profile file

i'm relearning some linux stuff, i recall that after i make edits to this file, i should issue a command that reloads the file and checks it for errors for safety reasons. Anyone know what the command ...
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Compiling Ruby on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

I am trying to follow this tutorial, on the subject of compiling ruby and rubygems on Snow Leopard: http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-rails-on-snow-leopard I have added this ...
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Moving C:\Users to another partition on Windows Server 2008 Standard

On a Windows Server 2008 Standard-server I have two partitons, named C: and P:. I would like to move the user profiles directory C:\Users to P:\Users Is it possible? Is it supported by Microsoft? ...
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How to Load commands into your powershell profile to run on starting powershell

I have found a way to load exchange 2010 powershell into powershell running on a windows xp workstation, however there are a few commands that need to run. I was wondering how I could load them into a ...
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Create Active Directory User Profile

Is there a way I can get a Windows XP computer that is a domain client to create certain user profiles without having to get the user to log in?
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Are there any issues switching a user from a roaming profile to a local profile?

We have a Windows Server 2003 environment with XP Professional laptops. If I switch a user from a roaming profile to a local profile in active directory, by clearing the profile path, will this cause ...
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Roaming user profiles in Linux

My company is evaluating a plan to migrate from Windows to Linux. Can you suggest something in Linux analogous to roaming user profiles and domain users in an Active Directory environment?
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cygwin SSHD auto closes the connection upon connection

I run cygwin/sshd on Windows Vista. I used to be able to use ssh to connect to my computer alright, until recently it started not working (I think I installed and removed some other cygwin packages) ...
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Deleting multiple profiles

I know that you shouldn't just delete the folder in c:\Documents & Settings (or wherever) and should also delete "something" from the registry under HKEY_USERS. We sometimes want to delete all the ...
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What files can be deleted to decrease local profile size

I am deploying windows 7 through altiris and I am noticing that the profile sizes under C:\users\username are about 200MB. Is there any way to trim the fat? I already deleted the temp files out of ...
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Automatically configure Outlook profile for new users on Citrix server

I would like to setup the default profile on our Citrix server so that when a new user is granted access, their profile is already/automatically configured to point towards our exchange server. The ...
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How to set same profile settings to every user in a domain

I need to set the user variables and settings for every user in a domain. The settings are: Advanced performance options visual effects for best performances Also: Java Auto update option is to ...
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AIX update environment after .profile change

I am running AIX 5.3. I have made changes to a user's .profile file (added a couple of environment variables). Is there a command that I can use to re-process the .profile file for a particular ...
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script for removing the temp files during logout

Is it possible for one of you to write a script for removing the temp files during logout for all users? (or server during restart) Or this script can be scheduled alternate weeks. As unnecessarily ...
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How to use oprofile to find the bottle-neck of our web server?

Updated: ================================================================ I finally found the reason with oprofile. It was because the routing cache of Symfony. We have lots of pages with different ...
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Precached Windows Logins?

I know if a Windows users logs into a machine, and later that machine falls off the network, that the user can log in to the machine with cached credentials. Is there any way to precache those ...
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Can I give Domain Local groups access permissions to a profile (Windows 2003 R2 SP2/XP)?

I'm having problems giving a Domain Local group permissions to a mandatory user profile with Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 and Windows XP SP3. I've created a Global group called Sales, and put John and ...
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Migrate user profiles to new Active Directory Accounts

I have a few users in a very old workgroup that log directly into their local machines (Windows XP Pro). This week they're finally moving to active directory and will need to log into domain accounts ...
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Sysadmin: Where to Start?

Hopefully this won't get closed as too vague or too duplicative but here goes anyway... I recently started work with a small company (25~ people). First up front is I am a developer and brought in to ...
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User profile paths in RemoteApp sessions

I try to setup a terminal services farm, serving some of our LOB applications. The main goal is to use them as RemoteApps through Terminal Services Gateway for the users, who are somewhere away from ...
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Profile backup script for XP migrate to Vista

I have a .cmd i use to copy our users local files when they change computer. This works very well in XP/2000 but now i can see that we (large enterprise) are moving to Vista. And was wondering if the ...
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Recovering OST file without profile

We have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and offer this solution to many customers. Recently, a customer had his personal Exchange server crash (which is what made him our customer). He called some ...
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Terminal Server 2008 - Shared/Default User Profile?

We are testing a Windows Server 2008 Standard Terminal Services mini-farm set up in VMWare to help manage a single application remote deployment. This application stores a LOT of settings in the per-...
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Make windows 7 client compatible with windows 2003 server

I am sysadmin for a small business with 30 clients. We have a server running windows 2003 and all the client-computers run windows XP. Now this is not an important issue, but it would be nice if it ...
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User profile lost on Windows XP - recurring problem

Yesterday on of my users reported that when he logged in he got an error stating "Windows cannot load the locally stored profile." He was able to log in to a blank profile, which we then configured ...
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User Profile keeps loading TEMP Profile

I am having a difficult time with an issue that our support staff won't support (as they will not support Vista). I am able to log into our domain without any issue, however, when I go home and log ...
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Migrate local profiles to roaming profiles

What are "things to think about" and best practices to migrate a large number of users from using local profiles to roaming ones?
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How to switch between SMTP servers at different locations on a laptop

I have two ISPs at two separate locations, both with separate SMTP servers. Neither SMTP server allows relaying from the other ISP, so when taking my laptop between each location, I have to swap ...
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How to automate configuration of roaming profile paths for newly-created domain users in Windows Server 2003?

How do I setup Windows Server 2003 to default newly created domain users to be configured with a roaming profile path? Let's say I have roaming profiles stored at the path \server\profiles. Is there ...
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Windows Vista profile gotchas?

We have a large network using a standard XP centrally managed configuration. We have a small number of users who need a 64 bit desktop OS for memory reasons. If we give them Windows Vista machines is ...
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