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Vista’s MoveUser.exe replacement

Hi Rob here again. I recently had a customer that needed the functionality of MoveUser.exe from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit available in Windows Vista. The customer had quite a few Windows Vista machines that were not joined to the domain but were now Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:33 AM by NedPyle | 17 Comments

Filed under: Profiles, Windows Vista

Automatic creation of user folders for home, roaming profile and redirected folders.

Hi Rob here again. Periodically we’re asked "what is the best way to auto-create home, roaming profile, and folder redirection folders instead of Administrators creating and configuring the NTFS permissions manually?" The techniques in this post requires Read More...

Posted: Monday, June 30, 2008 6:19 PM by NedPyle | 6 Comments

Filed under: Folder Redirection, Home directories, Profiles, Roaming profiles

User Profile Policies in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista

Mike here. Windows Vista made numerous changes with how user profiles work. In fact, the changes are too numerous to describe here (you can read more about the changes with user profiles in the Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73435 Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 7:06 PM by NedPyle | 2 Comments

Filed under: group policy, Profiles, Roaming profiles