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Domain Controller won't change roaming profile location and/or where to find help.

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I once learned that you have to force policies for them to take effect immediately.

edit: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc739112%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

Yes, I did that multiple times. 

I figured it out. I was only messing with the Group Policies. I had to go to the Active Directory Users and Groups and change where the Administrator's Profile is stored on the User Properties. 

It was just confusing to me because it was trying to use the local machine expecting the Profile folder and the profile to be there even though I specifically only directed it to our file server in all places (i.e. Profile location, Folder Redirection, etc). That is just confusing to me in every way (I didn't user %USERNAME% or %USERPROFILE%).

Thanks for the help though. That definitely helped the process go faster.

Hi guys,

Before I start, if you don't know what to do, but know a different place I could ask for help with this, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know.

To summarize my problem, I'm messing with Group Policy on my Domain. The Administrator account was set to roaming in my testing, but when I removed that Group Policy, it's still trying to be a roaming profile. I've disabled the Group Policies that affected it. 

Example: Roaming Profiles were stored at \\file-server\profiles\, but each time I log in as Admin, it says "couldn't find the network path '\\domain-controller\profiles\'" which confuses me. I checked the policies, both whether they were enabled or the folders were being redirected to the DC. They weren't. 

I have no idea why the profile location changed to the local computer, but it shouldn't have. 

Any help is appreciated in resetting it back to what it was, or setting it back to default (i.e. local profile).

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I once learned that you have to force policies for them to take effect immediately.

edit: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc739112%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

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I once learned that you have to force policies for them to take effect immediately.

edit: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc739112%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

Yes, I did that multiple times. 

I figured it out. I was only messing with the Group Policies. I had to go to the Active Directory Users and Groups and change where the Administrator's Profile is stored on the User Properties. 

It was just confusing to me because it was trying to use the local machine expecting the Profile folder and the profile to be there even though I specifically only directed it to our file server in all places (i.e. Profile location, Folder Redirection, etc). That is just confusing to me in every way (I didn't user %USERNAME% or %USERPROFILE%).

Thanks for the help though. That definitely helped the process go faster.

† Christian Member †

For my pertinent links to guides, reviews, and anything similar, go here, and look under the spoiler labeled such. A brief history of Unix and it's relation to OS X by Builder.

 

 

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