Questions tagged [user-profile]
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Standard place for user defined bash_completion.d scripts?
I have user access (no root) into a Linux (Suse) machine where I developed some bash scripts and the corresponding bash autocompletion rules.
Since the scripts belong only to my user and therefore I ...
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What's the best way to see logged in users in Windows Server 2012?
Right now I use a powershell script to see the currently logged in users. But I don't see if their session is idle, active or inactive. I can see when the session was started, that's it.
Is there an ...
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Change the Powershell $profile directory
I would like to know how to change my the location my $profile variable points to.
PS H:\> $profile
H:\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
H:\ is a network share, so when I ...
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roaming profile vs folder redirection
I can't seem to find a consensus on what the differences are between the two. Roaming Profiles, Folder redirection or... both is one example. The top answer doesn't answer the question as to what data ...
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NTUSER.DAT and UsrClass.dat files building up by the thousands, why and can I delete?
I've noticed that my web server, 2008 Xen VM, gradually loosing free space - more than I would of though from normal use and decided to investigate.
There are two problem areas:
*C:\Users\...
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How can I decrease the time spent reformatting / restoring user's workstations?
I started working for a medium sized company (approx. 150 users). When user's workstations need to be reformatted for any variety of reasons, we reformat, reinstall windows from an oem disk, install ...
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How to manage hundreds of users (and customized profiles) on individual Windows 7 machines?
We're a small college, where every student is assigned an Active Directory account. We have a couple computer labs where the machines are all joined to the domain and students can log in to any ...
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Roaming Profiles: Simultaneous Logins of Same User
I am administering a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment that is using roaming profiles and folder redirection. The client machines are running Windows 7. Due to the nature of the business, users ...
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Linux :: Shared aliases in /etc/profile.d not applied to root user, why?
On my Fedora 14 developer machine I can add a sharedAliases.sh file to /etc/profile.d -- both my user and root user then have access to the shared aliases.
Switch over to remote CentOS 5.7 machine ...
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How to configure environment variables in an IIS 7 application?
I need to set the environment variable COMPLUS_FORCEENC=1 in an ASP.NET application. This variable must be set at the time the worker process starts to have an effect.
Therefore, I did this:
Create ...
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Notification Area is broken on first login
All of the Windows 7 computers on our domain have a broken Notification Area the first time a user logs on to that machine. There are gaps where icons should be, and clicking on a gap doesn't open ...
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Anyone have a script to delete a specific local windows profile?
I'm looking for Powershell (preferred) script, or .CMD or .VBS, to delete a specific user profile on a workstation (WinXP) or terminal server (2000, '03 or '08). I know all about the delprof utility......
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Windows 7: Delprof replacement for deleting profiles
We have migrated from Windows XP to Windows 7 at a high school and have run into a problem. The computer lab machines can have upwards of 5-10 different people log into the machine each day. As time ...
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Users are getting a temporary profile
A bit about current setup:
It is windows 2008 R2 AD servers (all of them are 2008R2) and couple locations which set as Sites. Each location has DFS on AD server. Roaming profiles are not used nor ...
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how to use temporary profile when ssh to remote server
I am frequently logging in to remote servers using ssh, to do standard administrative stuff. I have local bashrc/vimrc and various other configuration files that I would like to be available remotely. ...
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Copy XP local profile to new domain user profile
I just rolled out a new domain controller. I want to join all the PCS to this new domein (the PCs were never on a domain just a regular workgroup). When I join a PC to the new domain it creates a new ...
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Disable temporary user profile on workstations in a Windows 2008 env
I have a Windows 2008 domain with +/- 27 workstations. The users have all roaming profiles, but this doesn't work sometimes. What results in that the user is logging in with a temp user profile ...
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Windows 8 profile creation video
I have a piece of software that deploys a local account on workstations via an MSI and creates a profile for it. In versions of windows prior to windows 8, the first time this account was used it ...
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Upgraded users to Win7. Now getting "path not found" when saving files or opening attachments
We have a Server 2008 AD environment with about 5k users. We just rolled out Windows 7 SP1 (were XP) with great success. However, about once a day we get a few calls that a user opens a file from ...
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W2K8 R2 ApplicationPoolIdentity and gigs of data filling up drive
I run an IIS7 web server and use ApplicationPoolIdentity with 'Load User Profile' and my primary hard drive is filling up fast.
The C:\Users directory is filling up with temporary data.
For example, ...
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How to know if a Active Directory user can log in interactively
I would like to know if and how is it possible to know if an AD user can log in interactively (on a server) in a Windows domain.
I need to know if I can find it out using an LDAP search.
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Different mandatory user profiles for WinXP & Win7
We have a lot of computers running Windows XP and all users have identical mandatory user profiles when they log in. It was accomplished by setting the Profile path to \\server\profiles\winxp.man
Now ...
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Can you use a local path for mandatory profiles?
I run the network at a small college, and we're trying to improve how we handle public lab computers.
One thing I'm considering is using mandatory profiles. As part of the design for this, I want to ...
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Migrating Terminal Server profiles from 2003 to 2008 R2 "V2"
I've done some searching and there doesn't appear to be a method of migrating old 2003 based profiles to the new "V2" profiles automatically. Specifically, we're interested in retaining the <...
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Domain user profile messed up - how can I recreate it and keep docs/etc?
SITUATION
I have a user that we were trying to get Office 365 Pro Plus installed on their computer. It kept crashing, etc. I don't want to get into all of the details here on that part...I've spent ...
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Copy Windows 7 profile from one domain user to another
I have a user profile for my current domain user in C:\Users\peter.NEMOQ_AD.
Now I'm moving to another domain, separate from the old. The new profile is in C:\Users\peter.ENALOG.
I want to keep ...
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Difference between Roaming profiles, User Profile, Home Folder, and Redirected Folders?
On the network where I work, it appears at various times people have had roaming profiles, user profiles, redirected folders, and home folders.
What are the purposes and differences between these?
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Forefront Identity Manager errors when starting the SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization Service Application
After following Spence Harbar's Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization (http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx) exactly (and having it work several ...
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User Profiles being created on machines without logging in
Recently in our IT department we've noticed each others user accounts under documents and settings. Which is strange because we've never logged into each others machines. There were a few times I'd ...
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Lost domain controller without backup. Recovering user permissions
This definitely falls in the category of "You should know better."
I lost the domain controller on my home network a while back. I've been running my other computers (a desktop and laptop) without a ...
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What's the best way to do user profile/folder redirect/home directory archiving?
My company is in dire need of a redesign around how we handle user account administration. I've been tasked with automating the process. The end goal is to have the whole works triggered by the ...
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Windows 10 System Crash Then Overwrites profile
So this has happened to me 3 times now.
We have about 25 computers running windows 10 enterprise. All domain joined, all using roaming profiles (fortunately). And in the last 2 months ive had this ...
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Look on all server desktops for outstanding files before deleting profiles
We have about 70 servers that we are in the process of moving into a domain environment, so we are converting our users from local accounts to domain controlled accounts. How can we determine which ...
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How to find all local user accounts in chef
Using opscode chef, is there a way to find or loop over all user accounts?
I need to create a configuration file in each users home directory. I do not want to loop over any directory structure for ...
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How do i recreate a user domain-joined profile folder on Windows 2008 server?
I just deleted a user profile folder on Windows 2008 server (c:\Users\username) and now everytime i log on as the user windows tells me that it couldn't load the profile and it'll use a temporary ...
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User logon takes long but the roaming profile is small
We are having a few problems with our user logon.
Many users complained about login times of 10 to 20 minutes.
When doublechecking some users did indeed take that many minutes to log in.
First ...
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Find where powershell onload settings are
On a corporate machine, whenever one attempts to open Powershell, Powershell sends many requests to domain controllers. This would be find if the machine was on the network, but when it's not, then it ...
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Linux user starts in wrong directory?
Whenever I su to user X, it always starts in user Y home directory. The biggest issue is that then X doesn't run its .bash_profile, it attempts Y's and fails. I'm guessing it's just a typo in how the ...
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Get user profile size in vbscript
I am trying to get the size of a user's local profile using VBScript. I know the directory of the profile (typically "C:\Users\blah").
The following code does not work for most profiles (Permission ...
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Determining Logon date/time for user profiles on Windows
I am looking for a reliable method to extract the last logon date/time for each user profile on a given machine.
Any ideas? Read below to see my current methods.
On Windows XP I already look in the ...
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Win7 Domain User Profile- Desktop Icon management best practices request
Here's the situation:
We have a large (5,000+ user) organization that is currently using folder redirection to manage the windows desktop icons. This folder is redirected to a network share where we ...
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Dealing with duplicate Folders in a Win7 Roaming Profile/Redirected environment
I am seeing something unusual that has to do with Windows 7 roaming profiles in conjunction with folder redirection. Roaming profiles are enabled on a Windows 7 machine via group policy, and the ...
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Windows 2003 mandatory profile changes reverted only after workstation restarts
I created a roaming mandatory profile, logged in as the user with the mandatory profile and made some changes to test it.
After I logged off and logged in again as the user, I saw that the changes ...
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How Do I Move Remote Desktop User Profiles To Another Volume?
I am new to Windows Server 2008 and Remote Desktops, and have a handful of users (5) accessing a suite of applications by way of Remote Desktop sessions. The server is set up with a RAID 5 drive that ...
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"We can't sign into your account" is shown after restart on terminal server 2016
We installed a complete new server 2016 environment with 5 terminal servers in a farm. We also use User Profile Disks for the profiles.
The fault:
When the domain administrator is logged on to any ...
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How to create a user without a profile on Windows 7
Can anyone tell me how to create a local user without a profile on Windows 7?
I have a cron job I want to run, but I do not want this user to to show up on the list of local logins on the startup ...
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Prevent access to user documents for users logging in from terminal server
I am fairly new to administrating servers, but I have been charged with the task of working out remote access to the company's network.
The general plan is to connect through a VPN to a terminal ...
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Restoring profile to deleted user
We have an issue where a user's account was deleted and then another account was created with the same username. On Windows XP, the profile for this user was created in the folder "user.DOMAIN" ...
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Group Policy to Place Shortcut on All Users Desktops
We're looking at using a GPO to put a shortcut to a company web app on all users' desktops.
Different users are on different Windows versions, meaning the location varies:
c:\documents and settings\...
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win7 and win xp roaming profile
I have a samba server with WinXP roaming profiles and now I have to have some win7 clients as well.
Is there any trick which would allowed to login any users on Winxp and Win7 with the same profile ...
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