Re: Can't set Terminal Services profile path for some users

It is or at least was used for some Novell properties. There are also some other third party tools that mucked with it as well.

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Raymond Diack wrote:
Joe, you rock! Thanks very much - worked like a charm! Is that userParameters attribute used for anything else apart from the TS properties?

Thanks!
Ray

"Joe Richards [MVP]" wrote:

It is purely a guess but I expect something else wrote to that attribute and "corrupted" it for the TS Admin interfaces. Unfortunately the TS info was an addon and ended up getting slammed into the userParameters attribute. That is unfortunate because you can't read the attribute nicely to see what is in there but also because other apps may be using it.

My recommendation would be to clear the userParameters attribute of a user you have an issue with and then see if it starts working. I expect it will.

You can clear the attribute like this

admod -b DN_OF_OBJECT userparameters:-

Note that whatever you wrote to that as well as any current TS settings will be wiped for that user.

joe

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Raymond Diack wrote:
Hi Paul

I'm actually running this on one of the DC's. I checked the event log for errors - and couldn't see anything relevant. The DC's are otherwise "healthy". The share holding the profiles is a Windows 2000 cluster node, and is already storing the normal desktop profiles for our 500 users.

I noticed today that if we try and configure ANY property on the Terminal Services tab of the properties of the User object in AD Users and Computers it gives that "parameter is incorrect error". But it's only for about 20% of our users. So it's not related to the actual path I'm entering, or permissions to the profiles share etc.

Thanks
Ray

"Paul Bergson" wrote:

Are there any errors in the event log on either the DC they are authorized from, the data store which will hold the profile or the workstation from which this is running.

You could try running filemon from sysinternals (Freeware) and see if you get any errors when attempting to do this.

http://www.sysinternals.com/SystemInformationUtilities.html

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"Raymond Diack" <ray.diack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:BFECB827-3785-4D4C-B25E-EC173396CA96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi there

I need to configure a terminal services profile path for all our users. I'm
using a script, together with the TSPROF utility to do this. However, when
trying to set the profile path for SOME of our users, we get this error:-

Failed setting User Configuration, Error = 87 (0x57)

When we try and do it manually in Active Directory Users and Computers for
the same users TSPROF is failing on, we get:-

"Operation failed. The parameter is incorrect."

It must be a property of certain users that's causing this, but i can't see
anything different between users that may be causing this...?!!

Any ideas?

Thanks
Raymond

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