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Copy Windows 7 profile from one domain user to another

I have a user profile for my current domain user in C:\Users\peter.NEMOQ_AD. Now I'm moving to another domain, separate from the old. The new profile is in C:\Users\peter.ENALOG. I want to keep everything from my old profile. How can I do this? I've…
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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 times for other implementations) in this…
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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 business, and IT only looking in when there's an…
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"We can't sign into your account" is shown after restart on terminal server 2016

We installed a complete new server 2016 environment with 5 terminal servers in a farm. We also use User Profile Disks for the profiles. The fault: When the domain administrator is logged on to any terminal server and the terminal server gets…
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Determining Logon date/time for user profiles on Windows

I am looking for a reliable method to extract the last logon date/time for each user profile on a given machine. Any ideas? Read below to see my current methods. On Windows XP I already look in the registry and extract the ProfileLoadTimeHigh and…
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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 just takes forever to time out and this happens…
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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. First thought was that these users had a large roaming profile…
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Win7 Domain User Profile- Desktop Icon management best practices request

Here's the situation: We have a large (5,000+ user) organization that is currently using folder redirection to manage the windows desktop icons. This folder is redirected to a network share where we can centrally manage the different sites and such.…
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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 users Desktop/Documents/etc folders are…
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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 were not reverted back to the mandatory profile. The…
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How to find all local user accounts in chef

Using opscode chef, is there a way to find or loop over all user accounts? I need to create a configuration file in each users home directory. I do not want to loop over any directory structure for this.
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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 is split into two partitions; 80GB on the C: boot…
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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 user was defined, but don't know where that is.…
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How do i recreate a user domain-joined profile folder on Windows 2008 server?

I just deleted a user profile folder on Windows 2008 server (c:\Users\username) and now everytime i log on as the user windows tells me that it couldn't load the profile and it'll use a temporary folder. Is there any way to tell Windows 2008 server…
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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 Denied error 800A0046): Dim folder Dim fso Set fso…
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