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Ghealdan

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:59 am
Post subject: Local profile issues
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We run a W2k3 Terminal server that has local profiles on it for each user.
We recently moved all the profiles to another partition to free up some space
on the C: drive. We then changed the default profile path in the registry
and copied the contents of the documents and settings folder to the new
documents and settings folder on the new partition. The question is we are
having strange issues with some apps that are profile specific. After doing
some digging we realized the the ntuser.dat files are still being used and
updated by Windows in the old C:\documents and settings\network service and
\localservice folders and not in the new location. I believe this is the
problem. Any ideas on how to finish this move as I am obviously missing
something. Thanks in advance.
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:33 am
Post subject: Re: Local profile issues [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Ghealdan <Ghealdan DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> We run a W2k3 Terminal server that has local profiles on it for each
> user. We recently moved all the profiles to another partition to free
> up some space on the C: drive. We then changed the default profile
> path in the registry and copied the contents of the documents and
> settings folder to the new documents and settings folder on the new
> partition. The question is we are having strange issues with some
> apps that are profile specific. After doing some digging we realized
> the the ntuser.dat files are still being used and updated by Windows
> in the old C:\documents and settings\network service and
> \localservice folders and not in the new location. I believe this is
> the problem. Any ideas on how to finish this move as I am obviously
> missing something. Thanks in advance.

Hmmmm. I think I'd back out what was done. AFAIK, moving the documents &
settings directory after install is not
supported and causes problems. If you're using AD and have folder
redirection your profiles shouldn't be that large - and you should be even
able to prevent them from being cached entirely if you want.
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Vera Noest [MVP]

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:57 pm
Post subject: Re: Local profile issues [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench.RemoveThis@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> wrote
on 25 mar 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Ghealdan <Ghealdan.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> We run a W2k3 Terminal server that has local profiles on it for
>> each user. We recently moved all the profiles to another
>> partition to free up some space on the C: drive. We then
>> changed the default profile path in the registry and copied the
>> contents of the documents and settings folder to the new
>> documents and settings folder on the new partition. The
>> question is we are having strange issues with some apps that
>> are profile specific. After doing some digging we realized
>> the the ntuser.dat files are still being used and updated by
>> Windows in the old C:\documents and settings\network service
>> and \localservice folders and not in the new location. I
>> believe this is the problem. Any ideas on how to finish this
>> move as I am obviously missing something. Thanks in advance.
>
> Hmmmm. I think I'd back out what was done. AFAIK, moving the
> documents & settings directory after install is not
> supported and causes problems. If you're using AD and have
> folder redirection your profiles shouldn't be that large - and
> you should be even able to prevent them from being cached
> entirely if you want.

I totally agree.
The default profile path in the registry (I assume that you mean
HKEY_USERS\.default) has nothing to do with the location of your
user profiles, it's the location of the profile used during the NT
logon.

Check here for more info:

User profiles are filling up my C: drive. Can I move them to my D:
drive?
http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_profiles.htm#move_DocSettings
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Ghealdan

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:32 pm
Post subject: Re: Local profile issues [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Actually I found a KB article that pointed me to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList].

I then created a new documents and settings folder and copied the contents
of c:\documents and settings to it.

"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
> <lanwench.RemoveThis@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> wrote
> on 25 mar 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
>
> > Ghealdan <Ghealdan.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >> We run a W2k3 Terminal server that has local profiles on it for
> >> each user. We recently moved all the profiles to another
> >> partition to free up some space on the C: drive. We then
> >> changed the default profile path in the registry and copied the
> >> contents of the documents and settings folder to the new
> >> documents and settings folder on the new partition. The
> >> question is we are having strange issues with some apps that
> >> are profile specific. After doing some digging we realized
> >> the the ntuser.dat files are still being used and updated by
> >> Windows in the old C:\documents and settings\network service
> >> and \localservice folders and not in the new location. I
> >> believe this is the problem. Any ideas on how to finish this
> >> move as I am obviously missing something. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Hmmmm. I think I'd back out what was done. AFAIK, moving the
> > documents & settings directory after install is not
> > supported and causes problems. If you're using AD and have
> > folder redirection your profiles shouldn't be that large - and
> > you should be even able to prevent them from being cached
> > entirely if you want.
>
> I totally agree.
> The default profile path in the registry (I assume that you mean
> HKEY_USERS\.default) has nothing to do with the location of your
> user profiles, it's the location of the profile used during the NT
> logon.
>
> Check here for more info:
>
> User profiles are filling up my C: drive. Can I move them to my D:
> drive?
> http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_profiles.htm#move_DocSettings
> _________________________________________________________
> Vera Noest
> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___
>
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Vera Noest [MVP]

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:59 pm
Post subject: Re: Local profile issues [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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So I assume that you used the unsupported method described here:

236621 - Cannot Move or Rename the Documents and Settings Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=236621

Again, I wouldn't use this method, as it can give you problems.
Did you do a search and replace throughout the registry, as
described in the article?
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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=?Utf-8?B?R2hlYWxkYW4=?= <Ghealdan.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote on 25 mar 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Actually I found a KB article that pointed me to
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList].
>
> I then created a new documents and settings folder and copied
> the contents of c:\documents and settings to it.
>
> "Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
>> <lanwench.DeleteThis@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com>
>> wrote on 25 mar 2008 in
>> microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
>>
>> > Ghealdan <Ghealdan.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> >> We run a W2k3 Terminal server that has local profiles on it
>> >> for each user. We recently moved all the profiles to another
>> >> partition to free up some space on the C: drive. We then
>> >> changed the default profile path in the registry and copied
>> >> the contents of the documents and settings folder to the new
>> >> documents and settings folder on the new partition. The
>> >> question is we are having strange issues with some apps that
>> >> are profile specific. After doing some digging we realized
>> >> the the ntuser.dat files are still being used and updated by
>> >> Windows in the old C:\documents and settings\network service
>> >> and \localservice folders and not in the new location. I
>> >> believe this is the problem. Any ideas on how to finish
>> >> this move as I am obviously missing something. Thanks in
>> >> advance.
>> >
>> > Hmmmm. I think I'd back out what was done. AFAIK, moving the
>> > documents & settings directory after install is not
>> > supported and causes problems. If you're using AD and have
>> > folder redirection your profiles shouldn't be that large -
>> > and you should be even able to prevent them from being cached
>> > entirely if you want.
>>
>> I totally agree.
>> The default profile path in the registry (I assume that you
>> mean HKEY_USERS\.default) has nothing to do with the location
>> of your user profiles, it's the location of the profile used
>> during the NT logon.
>>
>> Check here for more info:
>>
>> User profiles are filling up my C: drive. Can I move them to my
>> D: drive?
>> http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_profiles.htm#move_DocSettings
>> _________________________________________________________
>> Vera Noest
>> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
>> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
>> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___
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