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Roaming Profiles problem (start menu items, user settings, registry, etc -- broken) URGENT : )
In case anybody caught my last question, this is a continuation of a migration. In our company of ~ 20 people, we've been using roaming profiles pefectly fine. We moved to a new domain name/controller and also reinstalled 2003 Enterprise on the PDC, but kept the data on the original drive. I went through and deleted all the ghosted SIDs and reset the permissions as they should have been (as near as I can tell.) I've also scoured the group policy settings for something related to this too. I set up the shares, and everything on the server-side should be a go. So as it is, the old roaming profiles \\server\$user\profile (for legacy reasons, unfortunately, but it can be changed) are hopefully ready to go.
I set up each of the users to use their old profile path, so the server setup is a duplicate. I then went to my test XP Pro machine and added it to the new domain. I logged in as a test user to test the roaming profile, and it appeared to work correctly:
*Desktop items are in place
* the z:/ mount to the home directory is fine
* permissions on the avaliable files are correct.
However, there are problems that make the "new" roaming profiles (really just the old files) useless:
* Themes are not saved
* the "Quick Access" links on the start menu don't exist
* No changes can be saved to IE or Explorer
* Office asks for the user's initials and attempts to run setup every time. even though it's been configured for each user.
All this leads me to a problem with the user's registry key set from the roaming profile. But I don't know what to do to fix it.
Permissions on everything in ./profile are %username% : Full Control, SYSTEM : Full Control.
Thanks!
I set up each of the users to use their old profile path, so the server setup is a duplicate. I then went to my test XP Pro machine and added it to the new domain. I logged in as a test user to test the roaming profile, and it appeared to work correctly:
*Desktop items are in place
* the z:/ mount to the home directory is fine
* permissions on the avaliable files are correct.
However, there are problems that make the "new" roaming profiles (really just the old files) useless:
* Themes are not saved
* the "Quick Access" links on the start menu don't exist
* No changes can be saved to IE or Explorer
* Office asks for the user's initials and attempts to run setup every time. even though it's been configured for each user.
All this leads me to a problem with the user's registry key set from the roaming profile. But I don't know what to do to fix it.
Permissions on everything in ./profile are %username% : Full Control, SYSTEM : Full Control.
Thanks!
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No, with a clean profile it works correctly as near as I can tell.
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here's a quick and clean (and free) alternative for setting permissions: use subinacl.exe, which is included in xp resource kit.
after you have loaded the hive to registry give this in command prompt:
subinacl /accountmigration=OldDomai
-view the permissions in regedit. new user should have ownership and full permissions
-unload the hive.
you can add option /testmode to see the results before actually changing anything.
after you have loaded the hive to registry give this in command prompt:
subinacl /accountmigration=OldDomai
-view the permissions in regedit. new user should have ownership and full permissions
-unload the hive.
you can add option /testmode to see the results before actually changing anything.
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Thanks a million, I used the regedit method (only had about 2 dozen users) and it worked perfectly. Much appreciation, you save me a night of sleeplessness. : )
Hi,
I hope you guys are still memebrs......
I am trying to use this solution to migrate our users profiles to a new domain.
The PC has successfully changed domain.
I copied the profile folder to the new DC and gave myself FC on the folder and all sub folders and files.
I can login, but not all of my settings are there, e.g. outlook profile, IE7 home pages.
Many users from the old domain have used this machine. Therefore I see multiple keys in HKEY_USERS.
The accepted answer leaves me with a couple of questions.
By "select the key you loaded previously" you mean something like :
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-154716
OR
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18
How do I know which key I should overwrite?
Do I load the ntuser.dat from the new or old account?
Please explain this solution. Small noob words please.... :-)
Thanks !!!
I hope you guys are still memebrs......
I am trying to use this solution to migrate our users profiles to a new domain.
The PC has successfully changed domain.
I copied the profile folder to the new DC and gave myself FC on the folder and all sub folders and files.
I can login, but not all of my settings are there, e.g. outlook profile, IE7 home pages.
Many users from the old domain have used this machine. Therefore I see multiple keys in HKEY_USERS.
The accepted answer leaves me with a couple of questions.
By "select the key you loaded previously" you mean something like :
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-154716
OR
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18
How do I know which key I should overwrite?
Do I load the ntuser.dat from the new or old account?
Please explain this solution. Small noob words please.... :-)
Thanks !!!
If they do then it may be a GPO limiting the size and what's copied across.
Post back and we'll go from there.