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win7 and win xp roaming profile

I have a samba server with WinXP roaming profiles and now I have to have some win7 clients as well. Is there any trick which would allowed to login any users on Winxp and Win7 with the same profile ...
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Get user profile size in vbscript

I am trying to get the size of a user's local profile using VBScript. I know the directory of the profile (typically "C:\Users\blah"). The following code does not work for most profiles (Permission ...
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how to backup active directory user profiles efficiently including laptop users

Preface: About 200 users, some XP, some Vista, some Windows 7 Enterprise. Currently there is an effort underway to upgrade all users to Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit. The backup could be implemented ...
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"default" profile folder in a folder redirection/roaming profiles setup

Usually, under Windows Server 2008 R2, there is a folder c:\users\default. This folder is a template for new users logging on at the machine. So, if you create the folder c:\users\default\Desktop\Test ...
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Migrate user profiles when taking W2K8 out of a domain and into a workgroup

I have a box currently sitting in an AD domain. I need to remove it from said domain and drop it into a workgroup. I don't want to lose the 2-3 user profiles on the box. I think I could use USMT ...
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How to manage hundreds of users (and customized profiles) on individual Windows 7 machines?

We're a small college, where every student is assigned an Active Directory account. We have a couple computer labs where the machines are all joined to the domain and students can log in to any ...
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Stop server from loading user profiles

We are an small IT shop, with the most basic services(in this case, user management) "outsourced" to our parent company. We have a bunch of Windows 2003 R2 Std servers on VMWare, which we designed ...
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Dealing with duplicate Folders in a Win7 Roaming Profile/Redirected environment

I am seeing something unusual that has to do with Windows 7 roaming profiles in conjunction with folder redirection. Roaming profiles are enabled on a Windows 7 machine via group policy, and the ...
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Upgraded users to Win7. Now getting "path not found" when saving files or opening attachments

We have a Server 2008 AD environment with about 5k users. We just rolled out Windows 7 SP1 (were XP) with great success. However, about once a day we get a few calls that a user opens a file from ...
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Change users wallpaper without logging in as the user in XP

I have admin access to the computer. What I want to do is change a users wallpaper to something else but without logging in as the user. There must be a config file or something where these settings ...
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Windows 2008 R2 Profile Creation Issue

Existing server with multiple users. New domain user logs on and everything works as normal. User can see own profile folder. Admin logs on and user folder is there User logs off Admin ...
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How to create a user without a profile on Windows 7

Can anyone tell me how to create a local user without a profile on Windows 7? I have a cron job I want to run, but I do not want this user to to show up on the list of local logins on the startup ...
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Restoring profile to deleted user

We have an issue where a user's account was deleted and then another account was created with the same username. On Windows XP, the profile for this user was created in the folder "user.DOMAIN" ...
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Linux :: Shared aliases in /etc/profile.d not applied to root user, why?

On my Fedora 14 developer machine I can add a sharedAliases.sh file to /etc/profile.d -- both my user and root user then have access to the shared aliases. Switch over to remote CentOS 5.7 machine ...
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script (search & delete temp files/folder) has got a failure

I use this script to clean history, cookies and cache(Temporary Internet Files) for all users AND it should also clean the temp dir BUT there seems to be something wrong. 2 things get mixed up I ...
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Disable temporary user profile on workstations in a Windows 2008 env

I have a Windows 2008 domain with +/- 27 workstations. The users have all roaming profiles, but this doesn't work sometimes. What results in that the user is logging in with a temp user profile ...
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Windows 2003 mandatory profile changes reverted only after workstation restarts

I created a roaming mandatory profile, logged in as the user with the mandatory profile and made some changes to test it. After I logged off and logged in again as the user, I saw that the changes ...
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How to move C:\Users to E:\Users in Win7 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What's the best way to move c:\users to d:\users under vista/W7 I've googled this and found several multi-step/regedit ways of moving the Users' directory. Is there not a ...
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Utility for lowering profile creation time on domain machines

On a college campus, we have many machines in a handful of computer labs. Most run Windows 7, some are still on XP. We use Deep Freeze to ensure that when a computer is rebooted, it is back to the ...
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Establishing why one profile is faster than all others

We have a webapp that we launch out through Citrix for external users. This webapp displays documents through an ActiveX control (the Oracle OutsideIn File Viewer). For most users, flicking between ...
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Recover encrypted file

I am running SBS Server 2011. I encrypted a text file file1 and placed it under the documents folder in the user profile of user1. Now I accidentally removed user1's account when I was adding/...
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How do I automatically add administators to terminal server profiles?

I am trying to add permissions for my Administrator group to the roaming profiles for terminal server. The problem is I am barred access to the individual user profile folders. I already tried ...
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Account is no longer attached to the computer [closed]

The comapny that I work for has split into different branches to become more efficient and I had to move from our main office into the smaller office. Now this place has a different domain and setup ...
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How Do I Move Remote Desktop User Profiles To Another Volume?

I am new to Windows Server 2008 and Remote Desktops, and have a handful of users (5) accessing a suite of applications by way of Remote Desktop sessions. The server is set up with a RAID 5 drive that ...
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Set up user's profile on a new Windows domain computer without user's password or reset

Is it possible to set up a profile for a current user on a new computer on a Windows domain without knowing the user's password or resetting the password?
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Waiting on User Profile Service - Forever

I have two AD servers separated by a T1. Location A, which hosts the primary AD / DNS / Roaming Profiles server is subnet 192.168.0 Location B, which is the secondary AD server (I'm trying to ...
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What is precedence of NETLOGON drive mapping vs Active Directory home directory?

If a) a user's logon script maps a user's home drive to a home directory and the same homeDrive but different homeDirectory are set on the user object in Active Directory, which method takes ...
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User profile service failed the logon - Accounts besides domain administrator cannot log on

Ok, Windows Server 2008 DC. Trying to log on as a user called BESadmin, I discovered an issue. No one but the domain administrator can log on locally or via terminal services. Users without log on ...
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How to Set Terminal Services User Preferences?

The server that hosts my terminal service is set to use dd/mm/yyyy and Pounds for currency. When I login as a user instead of getting the aforementioned settings I get mm/dd/yyyy and Dollars for ...
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Can I control what data gets saved with a user's roaming profile?

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine running a small corporate domain. User profiles are stored to a drive array on the server and I'm noticing that the user profiles are very large in some cases (...
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Lost domain controller without backup. Recovering user permissions

This definitely falls in the category of "You should know better." I lost the domain controller on my home network a while back. I've been running my other computers (a desktop and laptop) without a ...
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Copy HKCU to New User

We're in the process of migrating an environment from Novell eDirectory to Active Directory. We're using the Zenworks Personality Migrator to handle most settings and files, but some things are being ...
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Clean up employee profile in Active Directory

In my company, we have several ex-employees. On my Windows Server 2003 machine, there is a "profile" folder which contains the following folders for different employees: "Application Data", "Contacts"...
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Windows XP on domain: Is it possible to create a user profile directory prior to user logging onto computer

I'm prepping a couple workstations that will replace older systems in a remote office that does not have local IT staff. Users will connect the new computers in place of the old computers when they ...
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Server 2008 Group Policy controlled workstations?

We currently have around 35 workstations on our network each connected to our Server which is running as a domain controller, DNS server and file server. We are an animal hospital which means there ...
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Can't access a user profile as administrator?

I am trying to copy the complete user profile of an old XP pc to a new computer. I want to copy the entire profile as I have to get rid of the older PC quite soon, and would sort through the files at ...
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Custom handling of domain user profile creation

I want to hook into the domain user login system and handle my own local profile creation. I have two basic related questions: How do I intercept the domain user authentication? Can I handle the ...
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Are MS Office 2010 profiles backwards compatible with 2007

We run a VDI environment in which user profiles are stored on the D: drive. If I upgrade our "master" image from Office 2007 to 2010 (which will only change C:) and redeploy the VMs, will there be (...
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SharePoint 2010 User Profile Sync - Remove Disabled Users

I have SharePoint 2010 set up to sync active directory users and it is working great. I am getting disabled users in the sync though. I have tried what all the blogs say, filter on userAccountControl ...
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Roaming Profiles, Folder redirection or... both

I'm developing a remote desktop services in Windows Server 2008 R2. It's going on one server but in the future it's possible that another server could be added to the farm. I'm creating roaming ...
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What's the best way to do user profile/folder redirect/home directory archiving?

My company is in dire need of a redesign around how we handle user account administration. I've been tasked with automating the process. The end goal is to have the whole works triggered by the ...
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Allow WRITE access to local folders machine in 2003SBS AD

Have a SBS2003 client with a mess of a domain that is in process of being cleaned. But, for the life of me I cannot find a setting that will allow write access to the local hard disk for domain ...
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Should be simple: existing laptop with local user and outlook 2007 migrate on same computer to domain user with outlook 2007 emails intact

I have Dell Laptop with windows 7 64 bit and for the last year it's been just a machine with an account like: machine\john there are files in folders and stuff in c:\users\john and john uses outlook ...
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My profile won't load!

I can get into my Windows Server 2008 R2 primary domain controller via remote desktop just fine. It's my boss who's got his profile messed up. When he tries to log in, he gets the message The ...
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Linux user starts in wrong directory?

Whenever I su to user X, it always starts in user Y home directory. The biggest issue is that then X doesn't run its .bash_profile, it attempts Y's and fails. I'm guessing it's just a typo in how the ...
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Forefront Identity Manager errors when starting the SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization Service Application

After following Spence Harbar's Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization (http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx) exactly (and having it work several ...
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Can all domain users be logged into one local profile?

I need to find a way to have all domain users log into a computer and all use the same local (could be temporary even) profile. In the end, I only want one folder under USERS and I DO NOT want ...
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Windows 7 Profiles and Domains

I have a local user account I've been using, and I recently joined my laptop to my domain and created a user. How can I copy my local user settings over to the domain user without having to manually ...
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Forbid users to change DateTime settings at their desktop WinXP

What is the easiest way to block changing the Time and Date settings on desktop workstations running Windows XP?
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Changing Windows XP from one domain to another. How to preserve local user profile

I have 5 XP machines, and 1 Windows 7 machine, on a domain. Each machine is used by individual users, and have their profile stored locally at "C:\Documents and Settings\user_name". I have to change ...