No there isn't a way to do it using the Tools that Microsoft provides in
Win2k. However You can use User Manager for Domains to select all your
users and create there profile paths just like you did in NT4. UMD works
in both a mixed and native mode domain. You can also use it to setup
there home directories but then it sets up the permissions like it did
in NT 4 so the Admin doesn't have access to the Home Directory.
I really wish MS had added this ability in AD Users and Computers. Also
if you want to have access to the Profiles folder after it is created
your DC's need to be running SP2 and you need to set a GPO that gives
Admin Access to the Roaming Profiles folder.
Keith Nelson
Network Administrator
Orange County School of the Arts
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Dionne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 7:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 2000 roaming profiles / folder redirection
Folder redirection is in group policy, but there does not seem to be any
setting that allows sharing of a common profile (besides folder
redirection). Even without having "common" profiles one could have 1000
or
even 10,000 user accounts with individual roaming profiles and have to
set
the user profile setting individually for each of them. I sure hope
there is
a better way.
-----Original Message-----
From: Uy, Jerry (CALWEIPA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 3:34 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 2000 roaming profiles / folder redirection
Have you looked at Group Policy?
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Dionne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 21 August 2001 11:29
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 2000 roaming profiles / folder redirection
Hello Everyone,
I'm having a problem with Windows 2000 roaming profiles and folder
redirection. We have a Win2K domain controller with numerically
generated
class accounts, CS100s01, CS100s02, ..... In Windows NT you could
highlight
all these users, go to the properties on the menu and set the profile
information for all of them at once, for instance setting the roaming
profile info to \\servername\profile_directory\%USERNAME%. When the
user
logs in the profile that is loaded would be their own because the
account
name is substituted for the %USERNAME%.
Does anyone know if there is a way to do this in Windows 2000 with AD?
Somehow there does not seem to be an option to set multiple user
properties
at once. Is there a resouce kit command line utility that would do
this?
I have also tried using folder redirection instead of roaming profiles
and
have found them to be very tricky. There are lots of problems unless
the
folder permissions are set in a specific way.
Since our class accounts use common read only profiles (so they can't
mess
them up) we would prefer to stay with roaming profiles.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Mahalo
Carl Dionne
IT Specialist
University of Hawaii at Hilo
Computer Science Department
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