Unduly Noted

So you want to create a profile to distribute to new users as they login to their account in your lab? I have a windows 2003 server and Vista Clients (soon to be 2008 server). Go into your clean vista install and get everything setup PERFECTLY. Logout. Logon with a different account with admin rights. Right click on Computer. Click Advanced system settings. Under the Advanced tab look for “User Profiles” and click the settings button under that. High light the account that you just setup. Click the “Copy To…” button. Choose where you want to put it “Copy profile to” (we will get to where it’s supposed to go in a second). Next click the “Change” button underneath that. Type “everyone” (without quotes) into the object name text box. Click “OK” (or you can click check names, make sure you are bound correctly). If you are part of a .local domain you may have to pull your internet connection or just put the AD server IP in the first DNS entry and leave the 2nd one blank. Click OK again and it may take a few seconds depending on how big the profile is. It should now be in the location you specified earlier.

Proper placement of this file on windows server 2003? Place it in your NETLOGON folder: %systemroot%\SYSVOL\Sysvol (if you don’t know where your system root is just click start, run and type %systemroot% and hit enter, it will automatically take you there). If it is not there then go to a remote computer, open my computer and type your server into the address bar: \\servername . You should see the netlogon folder here. Rename your profile to “Default User” for windows XP/2000 (no quotes) and “Default User.v2″ for windows vista. Now when a new user logs into your domain they will automatically get this profile.