Re: Microsoft office tools behave badly after domain change/profile co



Your question relates to logging in to a domain, Outlook not starting, and
Word and Excel not holding the username.

None of these issues relate to Microsoft Access. Access is an application
that is part of Office Profesional.

Please post in a more appropriate newsgroup.

--
Rick B



"Paul" <Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6E71356A-FBA5-4471-A159-1E1BE50A3496@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We needed to change the domain that our users log in to. To do this we
logged
> into the new domain as each user on their respective computers, logged
out,
> logged in as the local administrator, removed the folder
username.newDomain
> from documents and settings, added the domain user permission to the old
> username folder, renamed it to username.newDomain, and viola they had
their
> desktop etc.
>
> The only problem we encountered with this technique is that when we run
> Office apps, a few odd things happen unless we make the domain user a
member
> of the local administrators group.
>
> The odd things are;
>
> Outlook will not start at all.
> Word and Excel ask for the username and initials every time they start.
>
> For the moment we have everyone logging in as local admin, but we would
like
> to change this back.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Paul


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