Questions tagged [roaming-profile]
A Windows concept refering to allow a user to see their information and settings in differente computers saving the user profile in a network shared folder instead the local hard disk.
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Using old roaming profiles after Domain controller change
Is it possible to keep the current network profiles on users' machines even if the domain changes?
It is not necessary to migrate current users from the old server, but the local network profiles ...
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AD Users sharing a Home Folder/Profile
I'm facing a unique challenge.
As part of our transition to a new Active Directory Domain, we must ensure compliance by assigning each user a unique User Account identified by their name.surname
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Roaming profiles: synchronization at logon mixing up timestamps?
In our Active Directory with roaming profiles I see frequent Events with Id 69 in log "Microsoft-Windows-User Profile Service/Operational".
These events warn about NTUSER.DAT not being ...
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Printers deployed through GPO disappear on terminal server
Windows Server 2012 Print Server and Domain Controller.
Printers deployed with GPO, per user and per machine, to Windows Server 2019 Terminal Server.
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Every time I logon to Terminal All/...
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Robocopy getting access denied but Copy isn't
For Offline work purposes, I was asked to copy users Network drive to their local machines and then from that point forward keep the two sync'd up.
I am having a weirdly hard time even starting this ...
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Redirected folders and roaming profiles issues
At the beginning:
I've been working as an extra in a new company (it's a school) for two weeks, so I don't really know the rules/configuration.
After weeks of working there, users started having ...
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How to use Office365 with Roaming Profiles, without require user to enter credentials/activate on every pc?
What are we missing? We try to use Office365 and roaming profiles. The problem is that applications prompt the user to login (or activate) when they roam to another pc.
I have read: https://learn....
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Active Directory roaming profile permission issue on folder C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Installer
I have a problem with one specific folder while user profiles are synced at logon. Let me explain the situation:
I have:
A user account (MYDOMAIN\accountname)
Security group 'Access to WADUP_RW'
A ...
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how to use temporary profile when ssh to remote server
I am frequently logging in to remote servers using ssh, to do standard administrative stuff. I have local bashrc/vimrc and various other configuration files that I would like to be available remotely. ...
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RDS 2012 Outlook Roaming Profile
I have a RDS collection with one sever in it with about 50 existing profiles, since day one we have had roaming profiles set-up and folder redirection. I have just added another RD host to the ...
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Add permissions for a usergroup to all domainprofiles (roaming profiles) on server 2008 R2
This is our current situation: We have an active directory with Server 2008 R2 and roaming profiles which is currently in use (old server), and we have a new Server 2008 R2. We already set up a new AD ...
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Locked Print settings disapper on workstations
we have a RICOH MFD and its queue ison a print servers ; few people accesing it via windows 7 workstations , have issues. They set the Locked print preference in Print Preferences -> one click print ...
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How to make Windows roaming profile with Linux
I have 2 labs with 20 computers each of them. All the computers are running Windows XP Pro and the user profile is loaded from a SunOS system (Solaris 8).
No matter which PC the user will use, he ...
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Disabled roaming profiles but APPDATA still points to roaming profile location. How do I update APPDATA to use local location?
I initially had roaming profiles implemented but it turned into a massive headache of constant issues and sync failures. Decided to remove roaming profiles and remove the roaming location from each ...
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Active Directory Roaming Profile for Windows 7 User not Redirecting to V2 Folder
I've noticed a number of similar questions here on this topic but not quite on the money for the issue I'm seeing. Here's the details:
Windows 2008 DC, 3 Windows 7 Ultimate x64 clients;
Profiles ...
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Does 'Recycle Bin' storage affect roaming profile space?
Our company allocates 40MB space for profile storage on the server. A user has a file of 15MB in his Recycle Bin which was deleted from his Desktop. In the past few weeks this user noticed a message ...
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Share desktop and documents folders among multiple Windows accounts?
We have several Windows workstations which are shared by multiple users. I'm currently considering a scheme where users have their own user accounts and profiles, but they share the same Desktop and ...
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windows 7 domain roaming profiles - can i set it up so that only differences are synced with local copy?
I have read answers regarding roaming profiles that recommend using folder redirection (like Profile Roaming, to make not to copy all the files to the local PC).
I don't want the profile dirs to be ...
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Outlook Exchange Active Sync with roaming profiles
I have some computers with Win 10, Outlook 2016 and roaming profiles.
I want to access email through Exchange ActiveSync
When I configure Outlook, the OST File ist stored in %userprofile%\appdata\...
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Changes to the value for Remote Desktop Services User Profile path do not take
TLDR; I can't figure out where the value for %appdata% is set for RDS servers. This appears to be different from the "Remote Desktop Services User Profile" directory in ADUC, as I can ...
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Local Settings in Windows 7 Roaming Profiles
We're planning a migration of several hundred desktops to Windows 7 and hitting a snag in our test lab with roaming profiles. Bit of background:
Win 2003 FFL
Currently all XP machines
Roaming ...
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Deploying Outlook through RemoteApp
We have an RDS server where we host our software plus supply access to office and a few other programs. this is a multi tenant environment, we do not host any email or exchange but users can connect ...
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Non-persistent Windows VDI with user profiles
We operate a Windows virtual desktop infrastructure with around 30 virtual machines. We have around 300 different users. All of them access the machines in arbitrary order and frequency. Each user has ...
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Roaming Profile & GPO & Security Group Interaction
I've set up roaming profiles (client insists) as per this doc: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/folder-redirection/deploy-roaming-user-profiles and it works, but there's ...
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Finding $RECYCLE.BIN folders on network shares
Is there a good tool to find $RECYCLE.BIN folders on network shares and their size?
In our environment we use roaming profiles and folder redirection for storing user profiles/data. Users are often ...
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Migrated Windows 10 Roaming Profiles to new server, now seeing Error - Event ID 1521
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I migrated the storage of some people's roaming profile from one Windows Server to another, and updated the profile location through Active Directory to reflect the change. Now for ...
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How do I redirect the Google Chrome appdata/local folder?
The users in our domain use Roaming profiles. Unfortunately Google Chrome saves bookmarks in the Appdata/local folder.
This results in Chrome "forgetting" the set homepage & bookmarks every time ...
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Linux Samba server for Windows roaming profiles?
I have an existing Windows domain using Windows 2016, and I want to set up roaming profiles. I would like however to use a linux box (CentOS 8 ideally) for the actual fileshare to save a license.
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How to switch a user profile from local to roaming
I have set up a user to use roaming profile on my domain controller. But when I add this user to a VM (I want to use it as a service account), a local profile is created for the user and I cannot ...
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When logging on to my Remote Desktop server I get the error "The Group Policy Client service failed the logon. Access is denied"
Steps to recreate the issue... (Windows 2008 Server - DC, and Windows 7 as the client box)
1) Create a new user in the domain.
Example: user1
2) Set the user's "Remote Desktop Services User ...
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Disabling roaming profiles on a single server in a network
I want to disable the roaming profiles on a single server which is used as a terminal and RemoteApp server. This option should be applied to all users in the active directory.
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Allow caching of share - roaming profiles - WS2016
I have a WS2016 that is running roaming profiles for users. Within the SMB file share, the option: "Allow caching of share" is enabled and was enabled by accident upon creation. There are already ...
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Windows 10 apps missing with roaming profiles
We use roaming profiles in our environment and am having an issue with Windows 10 deployments and I have narrowed it down to an issue with the fact that its a roaming profile because it does not ...
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Save Outlook credentials in Active Directory
I have an AD with roaming user profiles. Credentials, for example for Office365, don't seem to be stored in the roaming profile, however. When the user switches to a new computer for the first time, ...
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get gmail/chrome settings to roam with user on windows domain
Our school has had a Windows domain for >20 years. The design goal was for users to have the same experience whichever client PC they logged on to. We had Thunderbird, and the email settings moved ...
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RDS Terminal server profile migration
I need help with RDS profile migration.
We have 2 domains. Domain A and Domain B. Our terminal server is in Domain A and user profile created in file server (different location) as roaming profile.
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Contextual Windows Roaming User Profiles
I'm trying to figure out a way to implement a solution so that a user has multiple different roaming user profiles.
Which roaming user profile it uses depends on which OU the current computer is in.
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Issue with offline availability of roaming profiles
I've recently stood up a Windows 2012 R2 server. I set up folder redirection using the guidelines here and roaming profiles using Group Policy. All is well except for the fact that if the client is ...
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What does the Profile path field do in ADUC?
I noticed today that about 1/3 of our users have an empty field here in their ADUC properties
The other 2/3 have "\\servername\profiles$\username". What I'm wondering is how it's possible that 33% ...
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A roaming login primer
Just a few questions on how roaming profiles work. These may have simple and obvious answers but bear with me. For reference, I am volunteering to set up the user profile management systems at a not ...
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Slow logoff times on Windows 7 PC's in 2008 Domain. Login times are fine
Even with a brand new roaming profile (17.2MB, 253 files, 114 folders), it takes about 5-6 minutes for users to logoff, but it only takes them about 20-30 seconds to login. I located the exact same ...
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Deleting Local Profiles when using Roaming Profiles at Log off
I'm currently building an environment that will host about 5,000 users over 20 AppServer. I have finalized my GPOs but I'm experiencing an issue with the user's local profile when roaming profiles is ...
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roaming profile vs folder redirection
I can't seem to find a consensus on what the differences are between the two. Roaming Profiles, Folder redirection or... both is one example. The top answer doesn't answer the question as to what data ...
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smbd left running after user logs out from windows
I have few problems with my Samba4 Active Directory server.
First of all, when user logs out of Windows machine, corresponding smbd process sometimes doesn't end and keeps showing in smbstatus even ...
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How to configure ACLs for roaming profiles and redirected folder in AGDLP context
We looked for a long time on internet before to write this long post, but we didn't find any solution to this specific case, even on Microsoft's website.
Long story to understand the context
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Why do certain Appdata settings disappear after relogging a Roaming Profile?
I'm running into a pretty frustrating situation. Our users running on Windows 7 & 10 are using certain third party applications on their computers like:
Slack
Dropbox
Spotify
Whatsapp
Every time ...
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AD programs per roaming profile
Is it possible to make programs roaming with each user profile?
I wish to make it so that each user with a roaming profile has their own programs that load with their profile?
Also, is it possible to ...
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Create Outlook profile with windows/outlook credentials
With windows roaming profiles, most of the windows profile can roam to other computers in a domain, this includes the outlook profile.
We are moving away from roaming profiles in favor of UEV and ...
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Login to Windows with mandatory roaming profiles for other versions of windows
Hello to this community!
Recently we have been starting to research and setup a deployment for Windows 10 and use roaming profiles. Mandatory profiles are used for some users.
Our old environment ...
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Best way to transfer a Windows roaming profile on a Samba 4 PDC server
I am migrating a old Samba 3 Primary Domain Controller to a new Samba 4 server, creating a new domain and new users. My Windows 7 test client can correctly join the domain and new users can logon on ...
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