Windows 2003 change default user profile path

I think thats why I did not want to advise more As BSOD'D mentioned, folder redirection in the local machine works when the path is given as follows. But I didn't stop, I tested few other ways as well. When the path is given in this way, and when you apply it in the group policy editor, it gives a warning "Given path is not a UNC path, if the mentioned drive is not available in the local machine, folder redirection will fail". To continue this discussion, please ask a new question.

Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. I know I can manually change this in the client PC. Is it possible to change this location through a group policy or any other way?

Any help please? Thanks Shirmal. On the central file server, locate the folder that you created in the Step 1: Prepare the mandatory profile location section. Click the View tab, click to select the Show hidden files and folders check box, click to clear the Hide extensions for known file types check box, click to clear the Hide protected operating system files check box, click Yes to dismiss the warning, and then click OK to apply the changes and close the dialog box.

Previously it was possible to copy profiles by using the System Control Panel item. This copy to default profile option is now disabled as it could add data that made the profile unusable. Right-click the user account to which you want to apply the mandatory user profile, and then click Properties.

Click the Profile tab, type the network path that you created in the Step 1: Prepare the mandatory profile location section in the profile path text box. However, don't add. The user will now use the customized mandatory user profile. If this article does not answer your question, ask a question and pose it to other community members at Microsoft Community. Fix a corrupted user profile. Create a user account. Skip to main content.

This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Note Customizing the Start menu and the Taskbar is limited in Windows 7. Note Sysprep. Therefore, in this example, the Unattend. The built-in administrator account profile is deleted when you perform a clean Windows installation or when you run the Sysprep tool.

The CopyProfile setting is processed before the built-in administrator account is deleted. Therefore, any customizations that you make will appear in the new user account profile. This includes the built-in administrator account profile settings. If there are multiple user profiles, Windows sysprep may select an unexpected profile to copy to the default user profile.

Not all customizations will propagate to new profiles. Some settings are reset by the new user logon process. To configure those settings, use Group Policy settings or scripting. James Mertz James Mertz Skip to the part where it says pre existing install. Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Does this still fully work in Windows 10 these days? Am asking because there is this other method here: tenforums. Requires local admin. This will only come into effect for new profiles Create a temporary user with admin rights on the local computer. Log out of your account and log into the temporary admin user.

Find the username of your domain user and click the Delete button I recommend using Switch Accounts rather than logging out of the temporary account. That way, if something went wrong, you still have one account that's working Switch accounts and log in with your domain user.

Johannes Brodwall Johannes Brodwall 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. This makes no sense to me. In step 6 you delete the main account yet in step 8 you switch into it?

He says to delete the profile of a domain user. The idea is that if the domain user logs in again afterwards, his profile will be created anew at the new location. Slipeer Slipeer 2 2 gold badges 8 8 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. As Slipeer said i would not move all the profile, it can produce lot of error.

Maybe it would be enough moving the documents ubication of the user from C to D? Contrary to the second paragraph of the answer, I run this setup for many years IIRC , from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and through migration without any issue of any sort.

This is not always easy to setup at first, but once in place with sysprep, absolutely no conflicts nor issues. And I think this is for a simple reason: over the versions of Windows, the path to the correct folder changed a lot, not even saying that it is depending on the username, so from an application point of view, not querying the path dynamically would be silly.

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