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HELP!!! Roaming Profiles
HELP!!! Roaming Profiles

HELP!!! Roaming Profiles

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HELP!!! Roaming Profiles Stephen 03-22-2007
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?U3RlcGhlbg==?= on March 22, 2007, 11:35 am
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Hi Folks,

I'm not sure where the best place to post this is but I'm having problems
with registry changes and desktop changes being saved with roaming profiles.

Here's the breakdown...

My network is 2003 AD with some light group policies in place. My desktops
are XP Pro SP2 and all my users have roaming profiles. When i make any
changes to the registry and reboot those changes are never saved. When I
place items on the desktop and reboot the items remain. When I delete items
from the desktop, empty the recycle bin and reboot, the items are back on the
desktop.

The registry changes revolve around removing old or bad entries for mappoint
(mpoai9.dll errors opening office apps.) and stuffit officeready (again
office apps. startup errors).

The desktop items are simply a pain in the ass as I have a few that are
quite large and instead of cleaning up my desktop I end up with everything
old that I tried to get rid of plus everything new (not cleaner).

If this is not an appropriate board for this type of question perhaps
someone can point me to a better resource?

Any help is always greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Posted by =?Utf-8?B?SWFu?= on March 23, 2007, 12:58 pm
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My first question would be whether there is any need for roaming profiles.
They are a huge maintenance overhead, and most offices these days (apart from
the cubicle-farm variety) allocate a PC per user, so there is no real need
for them anyway.



Posted by =?Utf-8?B?U3RlcGhlbg==?= on March 23, 2007, 2:37 pm
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Whoops. I didn't mean to flag this as answered.

anyway I believe in my case I have a need for it. I have at least a dozen
users that travel from our corporate office to remote facilities using
whatever pc they my find available. Sure i can probably weed through my list
and only give roaming profiles to those who truly need it, but that still
leaves me with my delima.

"Ian" wrote:

> My first question would be whether there is any need for roaming profiles.
> They are a huge maintenance overhead, and most offices these days (apart from
> the cubicle-farm variety) allocate a PC per user, so there is no real need
> for them anyway.
>
>

Posted by =?Utf-8?B?SWFu?= on March 27, 2007, 7:55 pm
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As it seems the profile-changes aren't being written back to the server (and
a look at the profile-folder on the server should confirm or deny this) I'd
think in terms of a permissions-problem, which could be either on the profile
share itself or on folders within it.



Posted by =?Utf-8?B?Z2h1dGNoaW5z?= on April 5, 2007, 6:36 am
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Have you rest the permissions on the server to allow you access to the
profiles. The best to do to test this is to change the path of the roaming
profile when the user is logged on and check that once the user is logged off
the profile has been created in the new location. Then test it again.

"Stephen" wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm not sure where the best place to post this is but I'm having problems
> with registry changes and desktop changes being saved with roaming profiles.
>
> Here's the breakdown...
>
> My network is 2003 AD with some light group policies in place. My desktops
> are XP Pro SP2 and all my users have roaming profiles. When i make any
> changes to the registry and reboot those changes are never saved. When I
> place items on the desktop and reboot the items remain. When I delete items
> from the desktop, empty the recycle bin and reboot, the items are back on the
> desktop.
>
> The registry changes revolve around removing old or bad entries for mappoint
> (mpoai9.dll errors opening office apps.) and stuffit officeready (again
> office apps. startup errors).
>
> The desktop items are simply a pain in the ass as I have a few that are
> quite large and instead of cleaning up my desktop I end up with everything
> old that I tried to get rid of plus everything new (not cleaner).
>
> If this is not an appropriate board for this type of question perhaps
> someone can point me to a better resource?
>
> Any help is always greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!

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