Windows Administration

[Howard Bakken]

I have several people in my company that utilize their laptops both at work
and at home. They would like to have all of their programs, settings, et al
to be the same on both their system login and their network login. Currently
theier computers have seperate usernames and settings for each type of login.

How can I help them setup thier computers with identical settings for both
logins?

[Shenan Stanley]

Howard Bakken wrote:
> I have several people in my company that utilize their laptops both
> at work and at home. They would like to have all of their programs,
> settings, et al to be the same on both their system login and their
> network login. Currently theier computers have seperate usernames and
> settings for each type of login.
>
> How can I help them setup thier computers with identical settings for
> both logins?

Well, you could do this or just let them logon to the domain - cached
credentials allow this.

Notice if they logon to the system with a network connection, but not one
that can reach the Domain - it will increase the time to logon. The work
around is to not hook into a network until they logon.

To make the profiles the same, have them logon locally as well as in the
domain - choose the one they like the most (this is all assuming you do not
use roaming profiles) and as another administrative user, change the
registry setting pointing to one or the other profiles...

Start -> RUN -> regedit

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

Look for the SID (the really nasty looking number starting with S-1-5
usually) folder that when you select it on the left and look on the right in
the value for "ProfileImagePath" has the value for the user you want to
point to the other profile. Change that to be the path of the other user
you want it to be.. and then close the regedit and reboot. Make sure that
the users have full File and Directory permissions to boh of those
directories.

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<- Shenan ->
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The information is provided "as is", it is suggested you research for
yourself before you take any advice - you are the one ultimately
responsible for your actions/problems/solutions. Know what you are
getting into before you jump in with both feet.

[Howard Bakken]

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Howard Bakken wrote:
> > I have several people in my company that utilize their laptops both
> > at work and at home. They would like to have all of their programs,
> > settings, et al to be the same on both their system login and their
> > network login. Currently theier computers have seperate usernames and
> > settings for each type of login.
> >
> > How can I help them setup thier computers with identical settings for
> > both logins?
>
> Well, you could do this or just let them logon to the domain - cached
> credentials allow this.
>
> Notice if they logon to the system with a network connection, but not one
> that can reach the Domain - it will increase the time to logon. The work
> around is to not hook into a network until they logon.
>
> To make the profiles the same, have them logon locally as well as in the
> domain - choose the one they like the most (this is all assuming you do not
> use roaming profiles) and as another administrative user, change the
> registry setting pointing to one or the other profiles...
>
> Start -> RUN -> regedit
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
>
> Look for the SID (the really nasty looking number starting with S-1-5
> usually) folder that when you select it on the left and look on the right in
> the value for "ProfileImagePath" has the value for the user you want to
> point to the other profile. Change that to be the path of the other user
> you want it to be.. and then close the regedit and reboot. Make sure that
> the users have full File and Directory permissions to boh of those
> directories.
>
> --
> <- Shenan ->
> --
> The information is provided "as is", it is suggested you research for
> yourself before you take any advice - you are the one ultimately
> responsible for your actions/problems/solutions. Know what you are
> getting into before you jump in with both feet.
>
>
> Thanks for the reply. I will try it on my own before trying others.