Nishant
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Issues with Roaming Profile
Hi Experts, We are running Windows Server 2008 R2 as our DC and 30 windows 7 desktops. All our users have roaming profile. When i am trying to create a new user on AD, it wont create the user profile folder automatically. And when i try to login as that new user, its logs me in with a temp profile. I am using the following path for Profile \\Server.domain.local\User
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Check the event logs on the client machine that is having issues. Check your security settings on the related folders server side to ensure the users have access.
may be the location \\Server.domain.local\User
try
gpupdate /force
gpresult -h result
check and share the errors.
try
gpupdate /force
gpresult -h result
check and share the errors.
sounds like you don't have correct permissions on the file share your hosting the profiles on, have you migrated to this server ?? and do old profiles work correctly???
if so then follow this document.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757013%28v=ws.10%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Ashley
if so then follow this document.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757013%28v=ws.10%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Ashley
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All other users are able to login and access their profiles without issues. These new users are part of same OU and they have access to the main folder. But i dont see their profile folder any where.
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I checked the event viewer logs and found issues with folder redirection. Checked GP and found that i was putting in the wrong path under user profile. I just took over from the previous system admin at this office. Not sure how things are actually setup here.
I was able to fix it but i am not sure if this is the right way to do it. I checked the OS drive and found two separate folders, "User Data$" and "User Profiles". As per the documentation provided by the previous System Admin, i need to use the path as \\ServerName\User Profiles$\%user name% and it will create a folder automatically under the User Profiles$ folder. When i checked, it created a folder with the user name under "User Data$" folder and not under "User Profiles". However, all the old users have their profiles under "User Profiles" folder.
Then i changed the profile path for the user to \\ServerName\User Data$\%user name%. It created another folder under "User Data$" folder and the user was able to login and his profile folder was populated. Then i moved that folder to "User Profiles$" folder and it solved. To me it seems like a workaround.
On the Group Policy the path for folder redirection has been set as \\ServerName\User Data$\%USERNAME%\
Please suggest.
I was able to fix it but i am not sure if this is the right way to do it. I checked the OS drive and found two separate folders, "User Data$" and "User Profiles". As per the documentation provided by the previous System Admin, i need to use the path as \\ServerName\User Profiles$\%user name% and it will create a folder automatically under the User Profiles$ folder. When i checked, it created a folder with the user name under "User Data$" folder and not under "User Profiles". However, all the old users have their profiles under "User Profiles" folder.
Then i changed the profile path for the user to \\ServerName\User Data$\%user name%. It created another folder under "User Data$" folder and the user was able to login and his profile folder was populated. Then i moved that folder to "User Profiles$" folder and it solved. To me it seems like a workaround.
On the Group Policy the path for folder redirection has been set as \\ServerName\User Data$\%USERNAME%\
Please suggest.