Roaming Profile in Domain

[Guest]

Ok here's the setup, computer was in a workgroup, user has email in both
outlook and outlook express, desktop settings configured the way she likes
them. Recently moved to a domain and wanted to use roaming profiles on a
win2k3 server. Server has AD and DNS and exchange 2003 on it, I used the
function built into windows xp to copy the profile to the shared directory on
the server for the roaming profile. Logged in as the user and all desktop
icons were there, desktop settings were not retained, email was no longer in
existance in either Outlook or OE. And most of the items that start up from
the registry in the run key did not even start. Can someone tell me a simple
way to do what I am trying to do, or if there isn't one explain where I'm
going wrong.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Ok here's the setup, computer was in a workgroup, user has email in
both outlook and outlook express, desktop settings configured the way
she likes them. Recently moved to a domain and wanted to use roaming
profiles on a win2k3 server. Server has AD and DNS and exchange 2003
on it, I used the function built into windows xp to copy the profile
to the shared directory on the server for the roaming profile. Logged
in as the user and all desktop icons were there, desktop settings
were not retained, email was no longer in existance in either Outlook
or OE. And most of the items that start up from the registry in the
run key did not even start. Can someone tell me a simple way to do
what I am trying to do, or if there isn't one explain where I'm going
wrong.

Profile migration often causes problems - I usually just start from scratch
if there aren't many.

Search the computer for *.pst (include hidden/system folders). Create a new
mail profile for her that uses the Exchange server only. Import the PST data
into her mailbox in Exchange so she doesn't need to use the PST file
anymore. Why is she using OE? Is it still needed? I don't believe the data
can roam in the profile (it would probably be too large anyway) so I'd move
the store folder to a local folder like c:\data\oe - she won't be able to
use it on another computer, tho.

Check msconfig for startup items.