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Stop server from loading user profiles

We are an small IT shop, with the most basic services(in this case, user management) "outsourced" to our parent company. We have a bunch of Windows 2003 R2 Std servers on VMWare, which we designed with a System disk just enough to be comfortable for…
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Windows 2008 R2 Profile Creation Issue

Existing server with multiple users. New domain user logs on and everything works as normal. User can see own profile folder. Admin logs on and user folder is there User logs off Admin logs on and user folder is gone User logs back on. All…
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script (search & delete temp files/folder) has got a failure

I use this script to clean history, cookies and cache(Temporary Internet Files) for all users AND it should also clean the temp dir BUT there seems to be something wrong. 2 things get mixed up I think, the %temp% variable (= D:\TEMP in my…
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How to move C:\Users to E:\Users in Win7

Possible Duplicate: What's the best way to move c:\users to d:\users under vista/W7 I've googled this and found several multi-step/regedit ways of moving the Users' directory. Is there not a simple way (like in WinXP) to move them? Am I really…
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Establishing why one profile is faster than all others

We have a webapp that we launch out through Citrix for external users. This webapp displays documents through an ActiveX control (the Oracle OutsideIn File Viewer). For most users, flicking between documents takes ~1.6 seconds, but for one user it…
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Utility for lowering profile creation time on domain machines

On a college campus, we have many machines in a handful of computer labs. Most run Windows 7, some are still on XP. We use Deep Freeze to ensure that when a computer is rebooted, it is back to the state we originally put it in. We do not use…
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How to Set Terminal Services User Preferences?

The server that hosts my terminal service is set to use dd/mm/yyyy and Pounds for currency. When I login as a user instead of getting the aforementioned settings I get mm/dd/yyyy and Dollars for currency; however, if I login as an administrator, the…
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Clean up employee profile in Active Directory

In my company, we have several ex-employees. On my Windows Server 2003 machine, there is a "profile" folder which contains the following folders for different employees: "Application Data", "Contacts", "UserData", "WINDOWS" and so on (e.g.…
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Can't access a user profile as administrator?

I am trying to copy the complete user profile of an old XP pc to a new computer. I want to copy the entire profile as I have to get rid of the older PC quite soon, and would sort through the files at a later stage. To do this, I setup a DeltaCopy…
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Should be simple: existing laptop with local user and outlook 2007 migrate on same computer to domain user with outlook 2007 emails intact

I have Dell Laptop with windows 7 64 bit and for the last year it's been just a machine with an account like: machine\john there are files in folders and stuff in c:\users\john and john uses outlook 2007 as a pop3 client and has identifiable local…
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Local Profile Map to New Active Directory Login

Preface: I am sure this has been asked some where on the site before but I couldn't find any questions about it, or maybe I am not using the correct verbiage... Our admins are giving us a new active directory account on different domain. As I am a…
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Can you make a Windows network default user profile NOT apply to a certain operating system?

I would like to create a network Default User account for Windows 7 only. This is on a Windows 2003 domain with servers from Windows 2000 to 2008 R2 and Windows XP on workstation side. We're about to do a full migration to Windows 7 and I'd like to…
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Server 2003 on domain wont let domain user have local profile

I have a few servers that are acting in this behavior, you log in and always get put into a temporary profile. The server is licensed for TS. The user I am testing with has local admin rights so it doesn't seem to be a permission issue on the…
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Temporary profile on remote desktop server

We have 6 RD Servers (2012 and 2008) and on all of them users sometimes get assigned a temporary profile. In Eventlog we can always see Event ID 1600 Das Profil kann nicht von \files\RD_Profiles nach C:\Users kopiert werden. Es steht nicht…
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Can I identify the AD user domain from the contents of the user profile folder?

A user can log onto a machine from more than one domain. The sAMAccountNames, and therefore profile folder names, are the same in each domain. Looking at the profile folder contents, can I identify the name of the domain that the accounts belongs…
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