Roaming profiles and Vista

I have purchased my first Vista machine for our company to do some testing
and I added the PC to our Windows Domain. We use roaming profiles and
redirected folders with our XP and 2000 clients. There were some things I
needed to do to get this to work with Vista and for the most part I think it
is. One thing that I am noticing though is when I am at home and I log into
my computer using my domain account I get a message that my profile didn't
load correctly. I would get this similar message with my XP machine, but it
would load my system up looking exactly as it did if I were connected to my
corporate network. With the Vista machine 2 things are happening. It is
not loading my Quick Launch icons and when I click to get on Internet
Explorer it loads internet explorer but I can't browse any websites. If I
log out under my domain account and into a just a Vista local account the
machine runs just fine and I can get connected to the internet. When logged
in under the Domain account there are no Proxy servers we use at work and
like I said before my XP machine would run fine when logged into the domain
account from home. Part of me is wondering is the Quick Launch Icons not
setup for being available offline. I did notice with my redirected desktop
and documents that I could access them without any problems. So that is why
I am lead to believe that maybe the Quick launch stuff is not set to be
available offline. If that is the case where in the profile is that stuff
located? As for the Internet Explorer not doing anything that might be a
differerent story. Hope someone has some ideas.


Thanks!

Scott Micale <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have purchased my first Vista machine for our company to do some
> testing and I added the PC to our Windows Domain. We use roaming
> profiles and redirected folders with our XP and 2000 clients. There
> were some things I needed to do to get this to work with Vista and
> for the most part I think it is. One thing that I am noticing though
> is when I am at home and I log into my computer using my domain
> account I get a message that my profile didn't load correctly. I
> would get this similar message with my XP machine, but it would load
> my system up looking exactly as it did if I were connected to my
> corporate network. With the Vista machine 2 things are happening. It is
> not loading my Quick Launch icons and when I click to get on
> Internet Explorer it loads internet explorer but I can't browse any
> websites. If I log out under my domain account and into a just a
> Vista local account the machine runs just fine and I can get
> connected to the internet. When logged in under the Domain account
> there are no Proxy servers we use at work and like I said before my
> XP machine would run fine when logged into the domain account from
> home. Part of me is wondering is the Quick Launch Icons not setup
> for being available offline. I did notice with my redirected desktop
> and documents that I could access them without any problems. So that
> is why I am lead to believe that maybe the Quick launch stuff is not
> set to be available offline. If that is the case where in the
> profile is that stuff located? As for the Internet Explorer not
> doing anything that might be a differerent story. Hope someone has
> some ideas.
>
> Thanks!

Note that roaming profiles are not compatible between OS versions (do not
mix and match them), and Vista has a different naming convention for
profiles. I suggest you post in a group for Vista or AD for more expert
help.

There is a decent guide from Microsoft that I used when configuring roaming
profiles for Vista. If you google the title "Managing Roaming User Data
Deployment Guide" it should be one of the top links.

Vista will maintain the same redirected folders as XP (although you can
redirect additional folders under Vista). However the user profile is stored
in a seperate location called [profile name] .v2. Within the profile is a
file called ntuser.dat which basically is a set of the HKEY_USERS registry
settings for that user. This is then loaded ontop of the default HKEY_USERS
registry setting when the user logs on.

We don't run proxy servers here, but if the Internet Explorer proxy settings
are stored within the HKEY_USERS registry key, then I imagine you will need
to set them up again whenever a user first logs onto Vista - since that user
will have a ntuser.dat file within their XP profile, and an ntuser.dat file
within their Vista profile.

I'd recommend you read the Microsoft guide as it will give you a much better
understanding of the way in which profiles work within Vista.

"Scott Micale" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have purchased my first Vista machine for our company to do some testing
>and I added the PC to our Windows Domain. We use roaming profiles and
>redirected folders with our XP and 2000 clients. There were some things I
>needed to do to get this to work with Vista and for the most part I think
>it is. One thing that I am noticing though is when I am at home and I log
>into my computer using my domain account I get a message that my profile
>didn't load correctly. I would get this similar message with my XP
>machine, but it would load my system up looking exactly as it did if I were
>connected to my corporate network. With the Vista machine 2 things are
>happening. It is not loading my Quick Launch icons and when I click to get
>on Internet Explorer it loads internet explorer but I can't browse any
>websites. If I log out under my domain account and into a just a Vista
>local account the machine runs just fine and I can get connected to the
>internet. When logged in under the Domain account there are no Proxy
>servers we use at work and like I said before my XP machine would run fine
>when logged into the domain account from home. Part of me is wondering is
>the Quick Launch Icons not setup for being available offline. I did notice
>with my redirected desktop and documents that I could access them without
>any problems. So that is why I am lead to believe that maybe the Quick
>launch stuff is not set to be available offline. If that is the case where
>in the profile is that stuff located? As for the Internet Explorer not
>doing anything that might be a differerent story. Hope someone has some
>ideas.
>
>
> Thanks!