Loading a Roaming profile in Windows 7 AND XP
Environment: Windows SBS 2003. It is the DC and file server.
There are about 10 users and only 8 Windows XP machines so we established all the users to use a roaming profile, with the profiles saves to a network share obviously. THis is working fine as each user can log into any workstation and they're settings are maintained.
A Windows 7 Pro machine was just purchased and joined to the domain. As expected, roaming profiles are not loading on this machine. I realize the Profile structure has changed for Vista/7 and this is going to pose a problem.
But here is my question. Am I going to be able to set this up so the users can "roam" between XP and Win7 workstations?
I'd hate to do all this work to get the Win7 roaming profile working and then not have it load once the user logs into an XP machine.
There are about 10 users and only 8 Windows XP machines so we established all the users to use a roaming profile, with the profiles saves to a network share obviously. THis is working fine as each user can log into any workstation and they're settings are maintained.
A Windows 7 Pro machine was just purchased and joined to the domain. As expected, roaming profiles are not loading on this machine. I realize the Profile structure has changed for Vista/7 and this is going to pose a problem.
But here is my question. Am I going to be able to set this up so the users can "roam" between XP and Win7 workstations?
I'd hate to do all this work to get the Win7 roaming profile working and then not have it load once the user logs into an XP machine.
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It works between 7 and xp with a few differences, obviously settings that are only on one version and not the other do not transfer ... to get them working with Win7 just need to update the Group Policies to be Win7 capable which means Server 2003 or 2008 ...
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ahhh a Win7 capable GPO. If I set a Group Policy to include all possible users who may use the Win7 machine. Where would I find this setting on the SBS 2003 server? Active Directory Users and Computers....GPO...
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ohh I see. That is unfortunate the profiles are not compatible. Thank you both for your insight.