Does anyone have a guide on how to setup roaming profiles? I found one that said to login as the user locally to create the users profile on the server then go back and change the settings, but no matter where I login I always end up loading a "temp" profile. Even if I try logging into the server directly????
For the general roaming profile, here is a step-to-step practice:
1. Prepare the roaming user profile
- Log on to a Windows Server 2008 with the domain user account to produce a user profile. Log off the computer.
- Log on to the Windows Server 2008 with a domain administrator account.
-
Click Start--->right-click
Computer--->Properties--->Advanced System
Settings--->Advanced--->User Profiles
Settings…--->Settings--->Copy To. Copy the profile to the file
server, such as '\\filesrv\profiles\username.v2'
Note: A
".v2" suffix to the name of the user profile folder on the file server
must be added to distinguish between version 1 and version 2 profiles.
- In Permitted to use, click Change. Type the proper users or groups and then click OK.
2. Prepare the user Profile path setting
-
In the Active Directory Users and Computers, type the profile
location such as '\\filesrv\profiles\username' in the user's Profile
path attributes.
Note: Do NOT add ".v2" to the Profile
path of the user object. This indicates that for Windows Server 2008 it
will load the profile from 'username.v2' folder and for former Windows
operating systems they will load from 'username' folder if it exists.