Roaming Profiles

[Guest]

I have a Windows 2000 Advanced Server network with Windows 2000 Pro machines
with Office 2000 installed. Any user can log into any machine at the
company. All of their setting, desktop, documents, email, etc follow them.
It works great when machines go down. They can continue working at a
different machine.

I am trying to do the same thing at another company with no luck. They have
a Windows 2003 Server, with a mix of Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro
machines all with Office 2003 Pro installed. Each time a user logs on to a
different machine, the setup for either word, excel, outlook starts,
depending on what they are opening. They have to re-enter thier name at each
machine they go to. The outlook settings all have to be recreated every time.

Since it works on an older 2000 platform, one would only assume that it
should work on a newer system.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Newer isn't always better if it
doesn't work.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Of topic, since Roaming Profiles is an Active Directory user configuration
and not an Office setting. It also still works the same as in Windows Server
2000 so "newer" doesn't have to to anything with it here.

Anyway;
Sounds like you don't have roaming profiles configured at all. Read up on
Roaming Profiles here;
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...c982-4bfb-891e-91b47f211e181033.mspx?mfr=true

 

[Guest]

There are no users set up on machines except for Administrator. Users log
into the domain, therefore roaming profiles must be working. I can log on at
any machine, my documents are there, any changes I make are pushed to the
server. I log in on another machine, the changed documents appear.

The only issue is the Office 2003 Products constantly running the setup.
Once it is done on that machine, I can log off and log in again to that
machine and it is fine. It only happens when I go to another machine I have
never logged into before.

May it have anything to do with application data redirection?