How do I get roaming profiles to work??
- From: Rene Brehmer <rene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:39:14 -0700
We have more users than computers, and with some of these users, it varies
who of them will be working at the same time, which means it varies which
terminals they use. For this reason, I want the roaming profiles to work.
From what I can tell, the roaming profiles worked when the system wasoriginally set up 4 years ago. In the meantime, system has been broken. As
much as I can tell, this was caused by someone attempting to manage the
system either like a regular Win2003, or simply not knowing what they were
doing.
When creating new users, Add User Wizard completes, with errors saying it
cannot set the quota for the user's home folder and mailbox. Mailbox quotas
set in Exchange are however applied, as warnings are issued to those that
exceed the limits. And I've activated the drive quota and restored all
permissions to what the knowledgbase articles say they have to be for this
to work.
I edited the user templates to link drive U: to
\\server1\userdata\%username%\, but this is not applied to new users. I've
had to manually edit every single user to make this work. On a couple new
users I've been experimenting getting the roaming profile to work, but
still have some ways to go. I set the profile path to \profiles\%username%,
but when user switches computer, on login windows complains that "Roaming
profile cannot be found on the server", and this message repeats twice.
After login, U-drive is present as it should be, and contains roaming links
to My Documents with sub-folders, as well as all network drives set up for
that user. Also available for these users are all the network printers, and
the default printer for that user is remembered as well.
I checked the \profiles folder, and there isn't actually a folder for these
users, so I added that for each of them. Probably should've done that
first, but oh well.
What else do I need to do to get the roaming profiles to work? I want it to
save desktop settings, star menu settings, and whatever else preferences
these users change on their user.
Also if possible, if there's any way to make it possible for these users to
login, and use Outlook, without having to create them as a user on the
domain on every single computer first. Right now, the only way to get
Outlook to work for them, is to set them up as administrator on every
machine. I have not yet figured out how to get around that, but would
really like to be able to just set them up on the computer, and then let
them use whatever computer they want. We do have a license issue that means
not all programs are on all computers, but we're hoping to get that
rectified.
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