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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.

A roaming user profile is a concept in the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that allows a user with a computer joined to a Windows Server domain to log on to any computer on the same network and access their documents and have a consistent desktop experience, such as applications remembering toolbar positions and preferences, or the desktop appearance staying the same

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How can I detect if a user profile in Windows is a roaming profile?

I have a user who is having some issues. In order for me to resolve it I need to know if he is on a roaming profile or not. I believe he is but I want to confirm it. What are some signs that will tell me? Also he is using Windows XP Pro and we are…
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cannot centrally administer user profile in wink2003

I have created one shared folder to store domain user roaming profile on a profile server. The issue is only the user has the right to open the user profile folder on a profile server, not even the domain administrator and the local server…
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Debugging Windows 2008 (Roaming Profile) user logon

I would appreciate some help debugging my windows 2008 profile service. Any domain account that logs on to my 2008 machine gets a +- 20 second waiting time on "user profile service" I am using roaming profiles, they are around 8mb in size, and most…
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Can I have a Linux based Server which handles roaming profiles for Windows and Mac OS X?

Is it possible to have roaming profiles for Windows, and portable home directories for Mac OS X be served up from a Linux Server ? ie: 1 home directory for a mixed environment.
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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. I can see in the samba wiki notes on how to do this…
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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 switch the user profile from local to roaming profile…
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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 happen in local profiles so thats why Im posting this…
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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 with the user's profile. Now we have gmail and use…
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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. Both domains have two way trust existing and all…
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Enable roaming profile from group policy

I've had a reasonable look around the AD policies but am I right in saying the only place that you can enable & define the profile location is by editing the user, i.e. there isn't a group policy setting to (say) "Set the profile location to…
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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. So when I log into computer 1, 3, or 5 (In the…
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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% of our users in this roaming profile environment,…
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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 after hour or more and needs to be killed manually…
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Exclude certain files or directories from redirected folders

We have a windows 2003 AD and are using Folder redirection to redirect the users My Documents to a share. Is there a way to save certain filetypes (*.mp3, *.avi) or folders (My Music, My Pictures) on the user's hard disk instead of saving on the…
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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 We started a project with a Windows Server 2016 and it is…
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