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Revealing article about Vista
We are investigating the use of Windows Vista within our domain. Our current situation is that we use roaming profiles accessed via a domain based DFS namespace ie it indicates that what we are trying to do would not work with XP because of our DFS environment (specifically note 9).

Profile migration upon change of SID doesn't work and causes probl
I'm trying to get roaming profiles to work on a Vista Ultimate machine with Server 2003. Everything worked fine in XP until I started using Vista. I know the older profile doesn't' work with Vista, I know Vista uses a V2 at the end of its profile folder, but I can't for the life of me figure out why it won't copy

Roaming profiles between XP & Vista
I need to increase the roaming profile size, however the group policy editor restricts it to 30000 KB tops. I've done some research and found system.adm, You really want to keep them tiny if you want them to work at all. Thanks for the advice! I haven't seen any KB articles saying it was possible,

Roaming profiles not working...anyone?
I really hope to solve this Vista Business roaming profile problem, because we're already going to use for everyday work now... Here goes the list of answer from previous questions I posted: 1.) The ARM server "ipconfig /all" shows as follow: Windows Ip Config Host name: armserver primary dns suffix: Arm.local Node

Roaming Profiles
(can't rooming profiles with win2000/winxp) Windows Vista will always create a new roaming profile that's used between Windows Vista PCs only. I would recommend to thinking about disable roaming profiles and looking into Folder Redirection instead, that will take care of the work much better.

Roaming Profile in Vista
... and have roaming profiles. But you must walk before you can run. Are you planning to migrate your Windows clients or just your server? If you are talking about Vista, then presumably you are migrating your clients, so why not take it a step at a time, eg 1. Migrate your "Office" work to openoffice.org 2.

Vista Roaming Profiles and GPMC.MSC
Took me a few minutes to work out how to attach my backed-up profile, the Mozilla help is convoluted and "Profile Manager" could be vastly improved. Mozilla does not seem to be %HomeDir% aware yet and tries to bury email in the roaming profile - YIKES! Then there's the issue of the license, does it allow

Moving date file profile for Outlook 2007 on Vista
gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I have seen Vista and helped a few friends with it. Without getting into too much detail, it is the biggest pile I have ever seen. Group Policy greatly eases my administrative tasks, having a directory service to validate credentials and having roaming profiles etc. make everyone's life

Delete cached copies of roaming profiles - Policy
luna l...@themoon.com microsoft public windows server general sorry if its the wrong group Introduced a vista machine into the network, and of course the roaming profile doesnt work, Is there a server side util for vista profile creation ? - problem is users move around from desk to desk a lot and we rely heavily

Offline files fail to synchronize
ray r...@zianet.com comp os linux networking On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:28:24 +0000, KDawg44 wrote: Hi, I have seen Vista and helped a few friends with it. Group Policy greatly eases my administrative tasks, having a directory service to validate credentials and having roaming profiles etc. make everyone's life

Vista - Roaming Profiles
I have been a network admin for 20 years and so far no virus/spyware at home or work so I think my firewall structure is secure enough not to have to use UAC. 5> Vista doesn't support XP Profiles which is going to be a REAL pain when I try to deploy it in my network with Mandatory Roaming Profiles.

Vista
In setting up a Vista workstation it appears that this setting does NOT work as the profiles persist on the workstation after logoff. If I set it to one day the profiles will dissapper the next day BUT not just Roaming Profiles but ALL profiles. We would prefer not to delete teacher profiles at all so this

how does a User Profile get corrupted, and what it is the REAL ...
ask4jm ask...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista administration_accounts_passwords You will need a Windows Domain Server to enable Roaming Profile. For this to work, you should create same userid and password in both the systems otherwise you might need to enter password everytime.

Default Ownership Problem
Some of my user accounts suddenly won't start properly, and users get a "temporary" view of Vista until the "administrator" (haaaa haaaa haaaa, that's me! virus, spyware, hacked, network dropout during logon / logoff (roaming profiles), server issues (roaming profiles), someone accidentally deleted a file.

Vista-elevation and HKEY_CURRENT_USER
On particularly incompetent vendor insisted that their program could only work if installed by an individual user. Still, even though this situation and the roaming profiles remove the ability to use HKU\<sid> for uninstall, the same should be useful in the original scenario where the unelevated app needed to

Some Vista Info reguarding Profiles
2) Reformat the Vista CSC and reboot (REG ADD "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters" /v FormatDatabase /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f) 3) Create a new user profile "Test User" on the domain. 4) Log on to "Test User" and off again so as to create the redirected folders and roaming user profile on the Windows

[JOB/OT] Set up Windows 2003 Server as a Domain Controller
Excluding directories manually in roaming profiles is not required if the Group Policy is configured with a computer running Windows Vista or a later Windows version because the If you have already deployed roaming profiles, you can safely configure the exclusion, and credential roaming will work as expected.

"Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train ...
Al Dunbar AlanD...@hotmail.com.nospaam microsoft public windows server active_directory It might work by having a separate volume for home folders. Shot in the dark (cause I would not want to use roaming profiles of that size nor would I want to put a quota on the users's documents but I realize some might need

EFS Cannot copy profile
By the way the users have no error messages of Roaming profiles not being loaded or as such, their account works fine, no erros in the event log. The user only logs on the vista machines and the machine that they work on do have a roaming profile setup for their account, but for some bizzare reason it does not

Delete cached copies of roaming profiles - Policy
Now the user is able to do anything he likes with the file -- but I guess from what you describe the roaming profile synchronization does not work under users Since this folder would not be a part of a profile it would not cause any problems with roaming profiles. I believe this problem will be solved in Vista.