Re: Vista & SBS - Domain User Profile folder name

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On my test network I don't have the profiles redirected to the server.
They're on the local machines, all two of them :-)

The local profiles don't have a suffix unless the same user name exists
locally. Then it has the domain name suffix.

I wouldn't worry too much about this. I'm assuming/hoping there will be an
update for SBS that will fix the problems with Vista joining the domain
shortly after Vista is released.

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


Brian P Fielding wrote:
Thanks for the modified approach to joining computers to the domain
and setting up users.

Having setup user profiles in this manner with Vista what is the
profile folder name on the server ? Basically, does it have a .V2 suffix
?
Thanks
Brian

"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote in message
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Brian P Fielding wrote:
For this test I was using Vista RC1 build 5728 and SBS 2003 SP1
(This issue occurs for both Vista x86 and x64) - it also applied to
the beta2 build of Vista.

I setup a Vista User to our SBS 2003 Domain using the
connectcomputer wizard. It all went well but . . .

The user's profile folder setup on the Server was "UserName.V2"
instead of the expected "UserName" .

Additionally a network lnk has been setup on the Vista User but this
has been set to \\ServerName\Users\UserName (without the .V2).
I tried changing this to \\ServerName\Users\UserName.V2 but it
reset it.
The Username.V2 folder is the one used by Vista.

Is it intended that Vista User profile folders will have the .V2
suffix and that the link will be changed to include the .V2 or is
the .V2 a temporary feature.

Thanks
Brian

In playing with Vista and SBS 2003 SP1 this is what I have found so
far. I have tried it with several builds of Vista up to and
including 5600. I haven't tried it with 5728 yet.

Install Vista, name the computer whatever you want except what it
will be named once joined to the domain. Same with the administrator
user you create during the Vista install. Do not use the same name
as a domain account. Once Vista is installed and working you can
join it to the SBS domain as follows. Create a computer and a user
(or you can use an existing user) via the SBS wizards. Boot the
Vista computer to Safe mode with networking and logon as the local
administrator user you created during the install. Make sure all the
TCP/IP settings are correct particularly DNS. Run the
connectcomputer wizard but don't try to migrate any profiles or
assign a user. Do pick the computer you created with the wizard.
This will join the computer to the domain. You may receive a UAC
prompt or an error during the first reboot but it doesn't seem to
affect the results. Once the SBS_NETSETUP account has done it's
thing and the computer reboots logon with the domain account you
wish to use on this computer. This will create the profile but you
will get a UAC prompt and possibly another prompt for domain
credentials as this user is not a member of the local admins and the
local admin account is not a member of the domain. You can then
logoff and log back on with a domain admin account and add the user
to the local admins, or modify the logon script for the user so it
doesn't run SBS_LOGON.BAT, or live with it as is. I don't like to
run with local admin privileges so I added another domain account
that does have local admin privileges. When I logon as the standard
user at the first UAC prompt for permission to run the SBS logon
script I specify the domain account with the local admin privileges.
This way I don't get the second prompt for network credentials. A
bit of a kludge but this allows you to keep the standard SBS logon
script for when the user logs onto a different computer. Using this
method does seem to work better than manually joining the computer
to the domain. I was having intermittent problems with group policy
when I joined the Vista computer manually to the domain. --
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


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