Joining domains and keeping settings

[Guest]

How can I join a new domain and have all of my personal settings (ie.,
Desktop, Favorites, post office location, etc.) remain the same? I don't
need to start all over every time I join a domain.

 

[Dave Patrick]

You can use the Copy To function to mirror the profile. Logon at least once
after joining the domain. Then while logged on as another user (with
administrative rights) Control Panel|System|User Profiles, select your
userprofile, Copy To, Browse to
%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\userprofile.domainname
Change "Permitted to use:" to "userprofile.domainname" OK.

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| How can I join a new domain and have all of my personal settings (ie.,
| Desktop, Favorites, post office location, etc.) remain the same? I don't
| need to start all over every time I join a domain.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Dave, I'll give it a whirl.

Oh, in the vein of other things that don't work, I had the "Notify me of
replies" box checked when I posted my original question. However, I never
got a notification and had to browse back to this newsgroup to see whether
anyone answered. Nice application.

 

[Guest]

Well, Dave, this is not exactly what I was looking for. All that seems to be
happening is that it is copying all 3G of data from one directory to the
other. I know that disk space is cheap nowadays, but do I really have to
give up the extra 3G???!!! Plus, how will all this be synchronized? I now
have a duplicate post office for Outlook that doesn't care about what's
happening in the original folder.

Does someone have a solution? Is there anyway to join a domain and just
point back to the original (or my favorite) profile so that everything can
stay together? What's the use of joining multiple domains if MY profile has
to change each and every time?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Once you're happy that you have all then you can delete the old profile.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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| Well, Dave, this is not exactly what I was looking for. All that seems to
be
| happening is that it is copying all 3G of data from one directory to the
| other. I know that disk space is cheap nowadays, but do I really have to
| give up the extra 3G???!!! Plus, how will all this be synchronized? I
now
| have a duplicate post office for Outlook that doesn't care about what's
| happening in the original folder.
|
| Does someone have a solution? Is there anyway to join a domain and just
| point back to the original (or my favorite) profile so that everything can
| stay together? What's the use of joining multiple domains if MY profile
has
| to change each and every time?

 

[Guest]

I understand what you are saying, but I want to keep my old profiles so that
I can always log on to the other domains as required. I had expected that
for those with notebooks that may travel and log into different domains there
would be a feature to provide a common profile. Is that not the case?

 

[Dave Patrick]

No not natively.

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBE/tip2200/rh2240.htm

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
|I understand what you are saying, but I want to keep my old profiles so
that
| I can always log on to the other domains as required. I had expected that
| for those with notebooks that may travel and log into different domains
there
| would be a feature to provide a common profile. Is that not the case?

 

[Bruce Sanderson]

If you are up to modifying the registry, look at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Under that key, there is sub-key for every user account that has logged on
at that computer; the key name is the GUID for the account - don't worry
about that. The value:

ProfileImagePath

in each account's key contains the path to the profile folder for that user
account.

So, once you have logged on with a second (third) etc. account, find the key
in ProfileList for that account - by default, the username will be in the
ProfileImagePath. Then you can modify the ProfileImagePath to point at the
"old" profile.

 

[Guest]

Bruce,

That's exactly what I was looking for. Worked like a charm.

Thanks.