Recently I decommissioned the last NT4.0 server and upgraded the Win2k boxes to AD.
Ok I've read up on Roaming profiles, troubleshoot the implementation and generally achieved a baseline of success with them....to a point.
I need to take them a bit farther than they are currently going and I don’t know if its based on something not configured correctly in the user profiles or on the roamers themselves.
1) Microsoft Office(XP) settings don’t follow the users. Outlook being the main one, if a user roams from their normal system their mail settings aren't there. In addition the source files for office are required before the workstation can even open Outlook.
2) Desktop wallpapers aren’t going with the users. (Yes but when the owner of the company wants the picture of her kids on the computer I have to jump).
3) Redirects on the "My Documents" shortcut aren’t going with the roamers. For instance every user has a folder on the server, locally at the server it would be D:\users\%username% i.e. "d:\users\doeja" for Jane Doe. The desktop "My Documents" folder would be redirected to "\\server\users\doeja\my documents" I've got the permissions working and if I "fix" the shortcut manually it works fine. Any suggestions on how to get this automated I'd appreciate it.
*4) Not directly related to roaming profiles but I've been unable to get the login scripts to run. I've setup the scripts so they are on the server locally in C:\WINNT\Scripts\ and have tried setting up the user account to direct to c:\winnt\scripts\user.bat and \\servername\c$\winnt\scripts\user.bat but neither works. Any suggestions on getting these running I'd appreciate. I was thinking of moving them to d:\users\ since that folder has Everyone access rather than using the c$ for the login script.
Thank you for your time,
Ok I've read up on Roaming profiles, troubleshoot the implementation and generally achieved a baseline of success with them....to a point.
I need to take them a bit farther than they are currently going and I don’t know if its based on something not configured correctly in the user profiles or on the roamers themselves.
1) Microsoft Office(XP) settings don’t follow the users. Outlook being the main one, if a user roams from their normal system their mail settings aren't there. In addition the source files for office are required before the workstation can even open Outlook.
2) Desktop wallpapers aren’t going with the users. (Yes but when the owner of the company wants the picture of her kids on the computer I have to jump).
3) Redirects on the "My Documents" shortcut aren’t going with the roamers. For instance every user has a folder on the server, locally at the server it would be D:\users\%username% i.e. "d:\users\doeja" for Jane Doe. The desktop "My Documents" folder would be redirected to "\\server\users\doeja\my documents" I've got the permissions working and if I "fix" the shortcut manually it works fine. Any suggestions on how to get this automated I'd appreciate it.
*4) Not directly related to roaming profiles but I've been unable to get the login scripts to run. I've setup the scripts so they are on the server locally in C:\WINNT\Scripts\ and have tried setting up the user account to direct to c:\winnt\scripts\user.bat and \\servername\c$\winnt\scripts\user.bat but neither works. Any suggestions on getting these running I'd appreciate. I was thinking of moving them to d:\users\ since that folder has Everyone access rather than using the c$ for the login script.
Thank you for your time,
