Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [user-profile]

214 questions
5
votes
2 answers

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 their Documents (the folder is on the server and…
Matt Penner
  • 253
  • 4
  • 10
5
votes
1 answer

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 instead. Is there a way to disable the temp user…
Sven van Zoelen
  • 219
  • 1
  • 5
  • 12
5
votes
5 answers

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. Often i only log into these remote servers once…
Tom
  • 11,176
  • 5
  • 41
  • 63
5
votes
6 answers

Windows 7: Delprof replacement for deleting profiles

We have migrated from Windows XP to Windows 7 at a high school and have run into a problem. The computer lab machines can have upwards of 5-10 different people log into the machine each day. As time goes on, the local cache of user accounts fills up…
Doltknuckle
  • 1,254
  • 7
  • 25
  • 32
5
votes
4 answers

Copy XP local profile to new domain user profile

I just rolled out a new domain controller. I want to join all the PCS to this new domein (the PCs were never on a domain just a regular workgroup). When I join a PC to the new domain it creates a new profile. How can I migrate (or whats an easy way)…
Saif Khan
  • 1,945
  • 2
  • 20
  • 25
4
votes
3 answers

How to know if a Active Directory user can log in interactively

I would like to know if and how is it possible to know if an AD user can log in interactively (on a server) in a Windows domain. I need to know if I can find it out using an LDAP search.
Luigi
  • 41
  • 1
  • 2
4
votes
0 answers

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 problem 3 times. The user will experience some sort…
Mike Pengelly
  • 201
  • 3
  • 9
4
votes
1 answer

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 users may have files on their desktop or documents…
jcolebrand
  • 298
  • 5
  • 27
4
votes
1 answer

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? Note: I come from a Linux background, this is the…
leeand00
  • 4,869
  • 15
  • 69
  • 110
4
votes
3 answers

Domain user profile messed up - how can I recreate it and keep docs/etc?

SITUATION 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 most of the day trying to remedy it from that…
TheCleaner
  • 32,627
  • 26
  • 132
  • 191
4
votes
3 answers

User Profiles being created on machines without logging in

Recently in our IT department we've noticed each others user accounts under documents and settings. Which is strange because we've never logged into each others machines. There were a few times I'd run psexec in order to apply BIOS/system settings,…
SteveButler
  • 63
  • 1
  • 5
4
votes
4 answers

Can you use a local path for mandatory profiles?

I run the network at a small college, and we're trying to improve how we handle public lab computers. One thing I'm considering is using mandatory profiles. As part of the design for this, I want to know if I can set the profile to be stored on the…
Joel Coel
  • 12,932
  • 14
  • 62
  • 100
4
votes
1 answer

Migrating Terminal Server profiles from 2003 to 2008 R2 "V2"

I've done some searching and there doesn't appear to be a method of migrating old 2003 based profiles to the new "V2" profiles automatically. Specifically, we're interested in retaining the .NK2 file in Outlook, the Favorites folder, and…
gravyface
  • 13,957
  • 19
  • 68
  • 100
4
votes
2 answers

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 DC since then, and it let's me login from the…
Dave Hanna
  • 241
  • 1
  • 2
  • 7
4
votes
4 answers

Different mandatory user profiles for WinXP & Win7

We have a lot of computers running Windows XP and all users have identical mandatory user profiles when they log in. It was accomplished by setting the Profile path to \\server\profiles\winxp.man Now we have some new Windows 7 computers and we'd…
mak
  • 333
  • 1
  • 2
  • 11
1
2
3
…
14 15