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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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Roaming profile configuration Problem

I am having a problem with enabling roaming profiles. I have a test user ittest. I went into their AD account and changed the roaming profile location to \servername\profiles$\ittest The profiles folder is shared out, and everyone has full…
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Force a roaming profile to be created

SBS 2000 server; I've added \\server\profiles\ to each user's Active Directory's Profile tab, but 2 of 6 users are giving me grief: one finally was created for one of the two users last night (after two nights of logging off, including one…
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How do I debug Roaming Profile synchronisation (or lack thereof) on Windows 7?

We're running a Server 2008-based domain with Windows 7 clients. Recently a desktop of ours persistently started giving its user a TEMP profile on login. We assumed a broken profile and did what we normally, which was to rename both the cached and…
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How to Apply a .reg file to a ntuser.man file

I have a .reg file with some registry updates that I need to apply to a bunch of user's profiles. The keys are all in HKCU, which means they will end up in ntuser.man. The "manual" way of doing this is to log in as each user, run the .reg file,…
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Problem Disabling Roaming Profiles on Grouped Users

I'm having some serious issues getting a group of users to stop using roaming profiles. As expected, I have roaming profiles enabled accross the domain. - But am doing GPO filtering, limiting the scope. I originally had it set to authenticated…
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Server-based homedirs and universal logon on a Linux network? (Other than with NFS+NIS?)

This question was kinda, sorta, already asked, but there's a security issue with the NFS+NIS setup that still bugs me: if you know somebody's username/uid, you can setup a *nix computer, create a user locally with the same name/uid, and presto, you…
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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 user in AD, then setup a GP to force local profiles…
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Migrated Windows 10 Roaming Profiles to new server, now seeing Error - Event ID 1521

Elaboration: 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 everyone I've done this to I'm seeing the notification…
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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 working profiles running, but I'd like to go back and…
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Windows XP Domain Logon takes between 40 - 60 minutes

Windows XP Clients, fully patched, with Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 client Windows 2008 R2 domain Roaming profiles Folder Redirection applied to Documents, AppData & Desktop I've enabled userenv logging, and logged on just after 17:00 last…
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Windows roaming profiles on Snow Leopard Server

We've got an Xserve with Snow Leopard Server running our domain, with mostly Mac clients configured with "roaming" Home Sync directories. There are several Windows workstations that also use roaming profiles that sync to the Mac server, but they…
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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 for profit. I have some Linux experience, but not…
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Domain Policies needed when using roaming profiles

We don't usually use roaming profiles, but we need to test some code of ours to make sure we work with this. This led us to set up a roaming profile and then try to use the program in question. On all but one machine we tried this on, all was well.…
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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 ignore all programs on the computer itself when…
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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 work folders. UEV allows certain app data to roam…
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