Guest SBN via WinServerKB.com Posted December 14, 2007 Posted December 14, 2007 Hey guys im planning to re-format all computer clients in our network running winXP and all our users are under remote profiles and folder redirection, is it possible to reformat all their computers and join them back to the domain and still they can have their orginal profiles? -- Message posted via WinServerKB.com http://www.winserverkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/windows-server/200712/1
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted December 14, 2007 Posted December 14, 2007 Re: Maintaining Remote Profiles SBN via WinServerKB.com <u32166@uwe> wrote: > Hey guys im planning to re-format all computer clients in our network > running winXP and all our users are under remote profiles and folder > redirection, is it possible to reformat all their computers and join > them back to the domain and still they can have their orginal > profiles? By "remote profiles" do you mean "roaming profiles" ? If so, yes, this should work.
Guest SBN via WinServerKB.com Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 Re: Maintaining Remote Profiles Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote: >> Hey guys im planning to re-format all computer clients in our network >> running winXP and all our users are under remote profiles and folder >> redirection, is it possible to reformat all their computers and join >> them back to the domain and still they can have their orginal >> profiles? > >By "remote profiles" do you mean "roaming profiles" ? >If so, yes, this should work. - yes its roaming profiles, sorry about that...:) - so to make things straight, even if the users computers were re-formatted they can still access their profiles on the server as long as they used the same username and password and their profiles still exist on the server. -- Message posted via http://www.winserverkb.com
Guest Hank Arnold (MVP) Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 Re: Maintaining Remote Profiles SBN via WinServerKB.com wrote: > Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote: >>> Hey guys im planning to re-format all computer clients in our network >>> running winXP and all our users are under remote profiles and folder >>> redirection, is it possible to reformat all their computers and join >>> them back to the domain and still they can have their orginal >>> profiles? >> By "remote profiles" do you mean "roaming profiles" ? >> If so, yes, this should work. > > > - yes its roaming profiles, sorry about that...:) > - so to make things straight, even if the users computers were re-formatted > they can still access their profiles on the server as long as they used the > same username and password and their profiles still exist on the server. > Exactly. That's one of the reasons they exist.... -- Regards, Hank Arnold Microsoft MVP Windows Server - Directory Services
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