Questions tagged [user-profile]
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User State Migration Tool - Does this create the profile on the machine?
I am on a domain without roaming profiles. We are looking at possibly implementing the User Stat Migration Tool with our MDT server, but I have a few questions first.
Using the USMT, can you ...
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Windows server 2008 active directory user profile
I just wanted to ask about profile migration.
There is Windows 2008 r2 server and people are working connected to this server through RDP. One user was deleted from active directory a long time ago ...
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Local user profile is created on Windows server when user accesses a shared folder on that server
I have discovered that several of our file servers have a handful of local user profiles (i.e. in C:\Users on the server) for users who obviously don't have permission to logon directly (interactive, ...
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Find where powershell onload settings are
On a corporate machine, whenever one attempts to open Powershell, Powershell sends many requests to domain controllers. This would be find if the machine was on the network, but when it's not, then it ...
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How to set specific user profile path on EC2 Windows server?
I want to create a new local user on EC2 Windows 2012 R2 server and specify its profile folder explicitly. I do the following
net user SomeUser Pwd /ADD /HOMEDIR:C:\Users\SomeUser /PROFILEPATH:C:\...
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Windows 10 System Crash Then Overwrites profile
So this has happened to me 3 times now.
We have about 25 computers running windows 10 enterprise. All domain joined, all using roaming profiles (fortunately). And in the last 2 months ive had this ...
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How to copy a file to common desktop (how to address common desktop) with Group Policy?
Using Group Policy Object > User > Preferences > Windows Settings > Files I can copy a file to user desktop using a target file name like this: %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\targetfile.txt.
Now I'm trying to ...
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Change user's home directory to udev partition on ubuntu [closed]
I have AWS EC2 instance and its disk usage always above 90% and just trying to move user folder to "udev" partition to free disk space.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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Why in Windows 2008R2 hkey_users sub keys does not match user profiles count?
I'm trying to set default proxy setting for all users (including remote desktop users) via the registry ( under HKEY_USERS\<USER_SID>\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\)...
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Default Windows domain user profile settings and behavior
I'm about to use Samba to create a Windows domain, primarily to enforce security GPO (using RSAT) after a data theft incident by an ex-employee before she left.
What is the default behavior of the ...
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Multiple profiles with Single AD Domain
I have problem with setting up multiple user profiles with single domain controller
I have 3 terminal server for each 3 company and I have single domain controller for all companies(because they all ...
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How to login without system profile?
I am receiving 0x80070002 file missing error on starting server. server is running windows server 2008 r2.
After researching i got to this page http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2008/03/12/...
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Win 7, Roaming Users, Start Menu, All Programs, other user account folders shown
This is a screen capture of when the Win 7 workstation on a domain is clicked on All Programs, it shows other username folders. The folders can be clicked and it's content viewed and opened.
Is this ...
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User with saved Windows profile not able to login remotely
When we set up computers, we always connect it to our company domain after we add the user into our Active Directory. So the next time we reboot the system we can login with the user credentials since ...
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Removed AD User, Need to Associate Existing Profile to New Account
Some details
Server 2012 R2 (AD Server)
Windows 7 (Users Computer)
Accidentally removed an AD User, stupid mistake. Unfortunately it seems the user was permanently deleted (didn't make use of the ...
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ADDS: Mandatory Profiles through powershell
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I'm a networking student from Belgium and I just got assigned a big project.
Basicly i'm responsible for the ADDS. We have to create several OU's and every OU needs at least 20 users or more.
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Duplicated domain admin user profile?
Our domain admin logon on PCs or Servers used to have only one profile located on
c:\users\administrator
Somehow, now we got a duplicated profile called
c:\users\administrator.domain
Does anyone ...
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Are temporary profiles copied from the "Default" profile?
I am in a situation where I know users will be logging in with temporary profiles while we decommission a server.
I would like to make a small change that gets applied to newly created temporary ...
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Notification Area is broken on first login
All of the Windows 7 computers on our domain have a broken Notification Area the first time a user logs on to that machine. There are gaps where icons should be, and clicking on a gap doesn't open ...
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Windows 7 not saving settings
I am using Windows Server 2008 and I created a Windows 7 user. I have installed all software on my Windows 7 computer, but when I restart Windows 7 it reverts to its previous state without saving my ...
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How to automatically delete user profile connected in a domain (Windows 7) once log off
How to automatically delete user profile connected in a domain (Windows 7) after logging off?
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Look on all server desktops for outstanding files before deleting profiles
We have about 70 servers that we are in the process of moving into a domain environment, so we are converting our users from local accounts to domain controlled accounts. How can we determine which ...
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Users are accumulating files everywhere and being wasteful/disorganised, what's the best strategy and supporting tools to help clean it up?
One strategy being considered is:
Advise users of the official locations that important working documents should be kept and that files kept in all other locations may be removed at will
each month ...
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Group Policy to Place Shortcut on All Users Desktops
We're looking at using a GPO to put a shortcut to a company web app on all users' desktops.
Different users are on different Windows versions, meaning the location varies:
c:\documents and settings\...
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User logged in with temporary profile
User logs into a domain-joined Windows 7 Pro PC and gets the temporary profile error pop-up.
Event 1511 User Profile Service in Event Viewer logs.
Typically with this problem I delete a user's ...
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Windows profile is deleted when user does not log in for several days
We use a Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory network with Windows 7 Professional clients.
After logging in a profile gets created on the computer as normal with all the usual settings, such as the ...
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Issue loading .profile
I am setting up a user profile for a specific application and I am getting an error that I have yet to encounter before. The error happens on with the loading of the .profile file, but the odd thing ...
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Application lockups when connected to domain network
We provide IT support for a small domain environment, (2008r2 domain, exchange 2010) around 12 users, most of with are mobile. We started getting complaints from the owner (its always the owner isn't ...
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How to stop application creating new settings folder within 'Application data'? [closed]
In Windows 2003, Document and settings folder a user is experiencing a problem where the application ('Toad') keeps creating a new settings folder at each logon instead of using only the first one i.e....
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Migrate from old domain user profile to another profile under new trusted domain
i'm changing the domain from windows 2008R2 to samba4.2.
now, is there any way to migrate the existing old domain user profile to new trusted domain in the fastest way? i did changing the registry ...
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Deleting user profiles on a remote windows 7 machine?
Is it possible to remotely delete a user profile on a Windows 7 machine, using something like mmc?
(and I mean where you delete the registry entries too not just the folder)
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Including default files and folders in User's home directory
I'm using ubuntu server 14.04. I want to include some default files and folders in home directory for every user, whenever a new user account is created. How to make this. Can anyone help me in this. ...
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Difference between Roaming profiles, User Profile, Home Folder, and Redirected Folders?
On the network where I work, it appears at various times people have had roaming profiles, user profiles, redirected folders, and home folders.
What are the purposes and differences between these?
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User Profile modified dates don't match....what is the difference?
This question came up while I was investigating a server that randomly restarted last night. I was looking through the event logs to see if someone manually restarted the system, but nothing was ...
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What's the best way to see logged in users in Windows Server 2012?
Right now I use a powershell script to see the currently logged in users. But I don't see if their session is idle, active or inactive. I can see when the session was started, that's it.
Is there an ...
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Copying default profile for new users fails with "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process"
I've built a Windows 2012 R2 Standard x64 terminal server (session-based). Early in the setup process, I was able to log in with my Active Directory credentials, but when I turned it over for wider ...
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Debugging powershell init
My problem is that I just reinstalled my system and have installed heaps of packages via Chocolatey. However now when I launch powershell, something changes the fonst type and size inside the console ...
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Production environment shared users
In all production environments I've seen there is a shared user owning the active production processes. The idea is that multiple real users can sudo as the shared prod user and do maintenance, ...
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Server 2012 Remote Desktop User Profile Disks and User Profiles on Server 2008
I have a new MS Server 2012 as a Terminal Server to deal with Remote Desktop connections to my small business.
Unlike my previous MS Server 2003 it doesn't seem to just work with the Roaming User ...
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Windows server 2012 user/administrator missing programs
I have the weirdest thing with windows server i have ever encountered.
When i log into the IIS server i have all my pined icons in the metro interface, my task bar pinned programs and my mapped shares ...
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User logon takes long but the roaming profile is small
We are having a few problems with our user logon.
Many users complained about login times of 10 to 20 minutes.
When doublechecking some users did indeed take that many minutes to log in.
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Windows still thinks profiles are mandatory even when they are not
A couple of weeks ago, we experimented with mandatory profiles for users, but due to some issues with one piece of software, we had to revert back to roaming profiles.
However, even though the ntuser ...
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Windows User State Virtualization guide
Microsoft have a concept called User State Virtualization (USV) this is a solution based on redirecting some of the profile folders to a central server. For laptops it also means using offline files ...
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Domain user profile messed up - how can I recreate it and keep docs/etc?
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I have a user that we were trying to get Office 365 Pro Plus installed on their computer. It kept crashing, etc. I don't want to get into all of the details here on that part...I've spent ...
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How to delete active directory user profile from windows 8 enterprise 64-bit OS?
Can anyone help me how to delete active directory user profile in windows 8 enterprise 64-bit Operating System? I'm trying these steps to delete it but not getting any luck :(. "System Properties" -> ...
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Standard place for user defined bash_completion.d scripts?
I have user access (no root) into a Linux (Suse) machine where I developed some bash scripts and the corresponding bash autocompletion rules.
Since the scripts belong only to my user and therefore I ...
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Can I safely delete old user folders in Windows Server 2003?
I have a Windows Server 2003 machine. When I delete a user, their folder remains in the Documents and Settings. Is it safe for me to delete those folders if I don't need any of the data in there? Or ...
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How to configure AD so that users who travel to different sites have the same Desktop and My Documents folders
I am settings up my Windows 2008 Active Directory environment so that users can travel between 2 sites and still access their Desktop and My Documents folders.
Currently, we have 2 sites (Site A ...
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Linking terminal server profiles with roaming possible?
I'm having a hard time setting up a few roaming profiles.
I've a user who uses our terminal server but we want him to start using his local computer on the domain. This part I know how to do. I've ...
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User Profile auto created on all PCs in AD
For some reason a user profile has been created on every PC on Windows Server 2003 Domain. The client machines are XP. The profile was created on all machines at the same time.
Any ideas whats ...
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