Roaming Profile Issues, please help!

[David Woo]

Hi,

We are having couple of roaming profile issues with newly created terminal
service
user. When we create a new domain user and assign it a roaming profile, the
new user can't seems to obtain the Outlook settings and will have to go
through setting up Outlook again everytime the user logs on to terminal
server. Also, our regular terminal service user is not suppose to be able
to have access to the system drive and the CD Rom but all the new users that
we created for the last 6 months have access to those items. Any previously
created terminal service users before mid of 2003 are not able to access
those items and their Outlook setup is fine. I have no idea what might have
caused the sudden change of behavior on the users especially the new users
for the last 6 months. I tried to look for system policy, group policy and
even domain policy but just can't nail down anything. Any ideas?

Here is the basic setup of our systems:

4 - Windows 2000 Servers with SP4
Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 with FR2 running as a farm on top of the 4 Win 2000
Servers
NT 4 Domain with 1 PDC and 2 BDCs
Users Home Directories and Profiles Directories on a separate Windows 2000
member server.

Thanks,

David

 

[Guest]

New users profiles are generated from the "Default User Profile", so any changes to that would only affect new users. I always make a backup of my default user profiles before I make any changes to them, so I can restore the last settings in case I do something stoopid. Maybe you can restore this from backup or recreate the settings you want and copy them over the Default User Profile

The hiding of drive letters is controlled by either Group Policy (local policy in your case since no AD), Registry Hack, or System Policy

Using Group Policy Objects to Hide Specified Drives in My Computer for Windows 200
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;23128

Using System Policies to Hide Specific Drive Letter
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;22095

Hide Drives in My Computer - via Registr
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php?id=148&filter=plai

If user's Outlook settings aren't being saved from session to session their Roaming Profile probably isn't being saved to the network share where your store them. Check the last modified time on the user's ntuser.dat file in their roaming profile

Patrick Rous
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Serve
http://www.workthin.co


----- David Woo wrote: ----

Hi

We are having couple of roaming profile issues with newly created termina
servic
user. When we create a new domain user and assign it a roaming profile, th
new user can't seems to obtain the Outlook settings and will have to g
through setting up Outlook again everytime the user logs on to termina
server. Also, our regular terminal service user is not suppose to be abl
to have access to the system drive and the CD Rom but all the new users tha
we created for the last 6 months have access to those items. Any previousl
created terminal service users before mid of 2003 are not able to acces
those items and their Outlook setup is fine. I have no idea what might hav
caused the sudden change of behavior on the users especially the new user
for the last 6 months. I tried to look for system policy, group policy an
even domain policy but just can't nail down anything. Any ideas

Here is the basic setup of our systems

4 - Windows 2000 Servers with SP
Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 with FR2 running as a farm on top of the 4 Win 200
Server
NT 4 Domain with 1 PDC and 2 BDC
Users Home Directories and Profiles Directories on a separate Windows 200
member server

Thanks

Davi

 

[David Woo]

Thank you very much Patrick for your help on this. I'll take a look at
those articles and check with the local and system policy on this.

David

New users profiles are generated from the "Default User Profile", so any

changes to that would only affect new users. I always make a backup of my
default user profiles before I make any changes to them, so I can restore
the last settings in case I do something stoopid. Maybe you can restore
this from backup or recreate the settings you want and copy them over the
Default User Profiles

The hiding of drive letters is controlled by either Group Policy (local

policy in your case since no AD), Registry Hack, or System Policy.

Using Group Policy Objects to Hide Specified Drives in My Computer for Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;231289

Using System Policies to Hide Specific Drive Letters
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;220955

Hide Drives in My Computer - via Registry
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php?id=148&filter=plain

If user's Outlook settings aren't being saved from session to session

their Roaming Profile probably isn't being saved to the network share where
your store them. Check the last modified time on the user's ntuser.dat file
in their roaming profile.