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Guest JohnB
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I just tried this for the first time and got mixed results. Not all

settings showed up when I tried the new profile. This is on Server 2003

with the workstation being XP. This is what I did:

 

- created an account called profile

- logged in as profile and set the Desktop, etc the way I wanted it. One of

the things I set was the wallpaper. I created a BMP file and saved it to My

Pictures, and then chose that with Display Properties.

- I then logged in with an admin account and, from System

Properties>Advanced>User Profiles, I copied the profile for user "profile"

to \\Server\profiles\AnotherUser

- Set the Profile Path for AnotherUser to \\Server\profiles\%username%

- logged in as AnotherUser

 

Everything looked good except a couple things; The BMP file was in the My

Pictures folder but, it did not show up as the Windows wallpaper. When I

checked the wallpaper settings in Display Settings, it was listed as the

current wallpaper. Weird. So I browse to it and select it, and now it

shows.

Also, in My Document, I created 2 sub-folders; Excel Files and Word Files.

And set Excel and Word's respective "File Location" options to those

folders. (I tested that to make sure it worked while logged in as

user=profile) But, that didn't get carried over when AnotherUser logged in.

Is this expected behavior? Or did I do something wrong?

Thanks

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