Looking for some good documenation / Information

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Robbie

Our company is currently converting to Active Directory from a Unix
environment. The convertion has been confusing for me and being able to
understand the changes have also been confusing for me.

Can anyone direct me to some good documentation / information that could be
available on the internet. Or maybe someone has a good recommendation of a
book that can help me understand the architect of AD and how it works.

One of the things that confuses me and maybe someone can help answer this
here. When they created the profiles for AD, a second one was created on top
of the one that already existed. When someone accessess the favorites or
desktop, it points to the original profile and not the one created when AD
was installed. I've also been told not to mess with the profiles with AD
active because it will screw up the machine. Well there are many times when
the profile or the NTUSER.dat gets corrupted and we need to recreate
profiles. Now with AD, it sounds we won't be able to. Is this true?

I need some help, your inputs or documentaton suggestions will be greatly
appreicated.

Thanks in advance,

Robbie
 
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Robbie said:
Our company is currently converting to Active Directory from a Unix
environment. The convertion has been confusing for me and being able
to understand the changes have also been confusing for me.

Can anyone direct me to some good documentation / information that
could be available on the internet. Or maybe someone has a good
recommendation of a book that can help me understand the architect of
AD and how it works.
One of the things that confuses me and maybe someone can help answer
this here. When they created the profiles for AD, a second one was
created on top of the one that already existed. When someone
accessess the favorites or desktop, it points to the original profile
and not the one created when AD was installed. I've also been told
not to mess with the profiles with AD active because it will screw up
the machine. Well there are many times when the profile or the
NTUSER.dat gets corrupted and we need to recreate profiles. Now with
AD, it sounds we won't be able to. Is this true?
I need some help, your inputs or documentaton suggestions will be
greatly appreicated.

Thanks in advance,

Robbie
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This should be a good place to start:

Windows Server 2003 Active Directory:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedirectory/default.mspx

Deploying the Windows Server 2003 Forest Root Domain:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...3/proddocs/deployguide/dssbl_dfr_overview.asp

Active Directory Operations Guide- Appendix B - Procedures Reference:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...rectory/maintain/opsguide/part2/adogdapb.mspx

Active Directory Webcasts - Learn the Basics and Master Advanced Concepts
(ADAM, MIIS, Migration, etc):
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/adaug.mspx

Migrating from UNIX to Windows Server System:
http://g.msn.com/9SE/1?http://www.m...018ccab2f2f0592&POS=2&CM=WPU&CE=2&CS=AWP&SR=2

Migrating UNIX and Other Applications to Windows Server 2003:
http://g.msn.com/9SE/1?http://www.m...018ccab2f2f0592&POS=1&CM=WPU&CE=1&CS=AWP&SR=1

As for profiles, there are numerous links at Microsoft's and other sites on
the Internet. They are too general and numerous to post. See if this google
search criteria helps:
http://www.google.com/search?source...-06,GGLR:en&q=windows+user+profile+management


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One of the things that confuses me and maybe someone can help answer this
here. When they created the profiles for AD, a second one was created on
top of the one that already existed. When someone accessess the favorites
or desktop, it points to the original profile and not the one created when
AD was installed. I've also been told not to mess with the profiles with
AD active because it will screw up the machine. Well there are many times
when the profile or the NTUSER.dat gets corrupted and we need to recreate
profiles. Now with AD, it sounds we won't be able to. Is this true?
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You haven't provided enough details here to determine the real problem, but
follow the links that Ace provided and you will find more than enough
resource on the subjects you asked about.

The profiles themselves have little to do with Active Directory. What you
may be experiencing is the difference between the profile stored on the
workstation when the user logs on to a local workstation account, or the
profile stored on the workstation when the user logs on to a domain-based
account. Since the account existing on the workstation is a completely
different account from the one stored in the Active Directory, they will
naturally be different.

You really need to determine which is the case. I would assume from what
you wrote that you are attempting to store domain-based user profiles on
your servers somewhere. Additionally, it seems that you may be trying to
redirect portions of the user's profile (Favorites, Desktop, Menu, etc.) so
that you can standardize them. Are you using a Group Policy to do this?

Profile management can be a pretty difficult task if it's not well-planned.


-ds
 
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