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Hi, I set up DFS with romaing profiles which replicate between 2 folders, replication works and users can log in fine if their profile exists. problem occurs though when I create a new user and i put the location of their new roaming profile \\mydomain.local\profiles .. when they attempt to log in the pc complains that it couldn't locate their roaming profile and it will log them in locally..?! Before this DFS business the server would automatically create a new profile if they hadn't got one.. Something I need to change?

Strange but the Screensaver Disable option was already checked... Still the **** screensaver comes on... I have tried disabling it with VLC, Media Player both seem to ignore the disable checkbox option.

Cheers for that, good info

Does anybody know of a solution to my problem: All our clients have a policy that will switch on the screensaver and lock the computer after 15 mins, this is for security reasons and is important. BUT... sometimes they might be watching a DVD or doing some kind of multimedia presentation and the sodding screensaver will come on and lock the computer?!!! Why can't it be clever enough to know a DVD is running ....? I tried the standard screensavers that are in Windows but they all seem to be suffering from the same problem. Any ideas ????

Hi I use Netgear GS724TS Managed Switches at work and I was wondering if anyone (Who has a similar switch) knows any good tweaks that could improve performance slightly? I know about the Jumbo frames thing but in a mixed environment I don't think that would really make any sense to enable. Thanks in advance

Thanks Everyone, I've got some good info to work with

That Wireshark looks good. Can I connect to Switches SNMP with it? Does wireshark only look at packets that are going to and from the PC that its installed on? Im not a Network King but I do have a bit of know how with networking so hopefully I can find my way around Wireshark..

Hi I'm having some issues with network performance and was wondering if anybody knows of good FREE tools that are easy to use that might help me identify issues on my network? I have tried various tools but can't seem to make much sense of them.

I have installed a new 2008 R2 64bit Server onto my network. I want to make it a domain controller but: On my existing DC which runs Windows Server 2003 R2 (32bit) do I copy the 32bit version of Adprep from the Server 2008 CD? If so, will it allow me to promote my 64 bit Server after I have run the 32bit Adprep software on the 2003 DC? Will this have any effect on the existing DC's in the Domain? Ok so basically my question is: Can I promote my new 64bit 2008 R2 server after running the 32 bit adprep on the 32bit Server 2003 which currently holds all the Schema fsmo etc?

After some researching of my current specs of my existing DC's running 2003 R2 I discovered that they are x86 which means that I'm screwed in regards to upgrading them to Server 2008 R2.. Is that right? So I am going down the route of migration instead. A few more questions though: 1. Do I run Adprep /domain prep and adprep / forestprep .. also do I need to add gpprep to it or not? I think not cos they are not windows 2000.. but I would like to check with you guys? 2. at what point should I move all of the roles to the new R2 2008 server? As soon as I have promoted it? (Schema, PDC , Infra ..etc) Will this dick up my existing DC's running 2003 r2? 3. Will the 32bit DC's still work on the domain with the new R2 2008 64bit running (As long as I'm at 2003 functional level) ? I am going to raise the functional level as soon as I have installed 2 new DC's and demoted the old servers.

The reason I thought about moving the Roles to the Virtual 2008 DC is because if I did that then once the roles are all on the Virtual DC I can then upgrade the old DC's with less downtime as the Schema master and all other roles are up and running on the new Virtual Server. Sound like a plan? Or do you think I should just do an ADprep forest/domain on the old DC holding all of the roles and just upgrade it to server 2008 first? Only thing that worries me about that approach is what if it goes pear shaped and then I'm faced with restoring Active director.

Would this be a wise way of going about upgrading our current 2003 r2 domain to 2008 r2: 1. Create a New Server 2008 Virtual Image using VMWare 2. Do the Adprep / forestprep on the Existing DC that holds all the Schema and FSMO roles 3. DC Promo the new 2008 server and install DHCP DNS etc 4. Allow replication to occur 5. Seize all FSMO roles from old DC to new 2008 Server (I'm a bit worried about this bit) 6. Backup the Virtual VM 2008 r2 that now has all the roles 7. upgrade the other old DC's that have good spec to 2008. 8. Once all Servers are running Server 2008 platform raise the forest / domain functional level. The only part I'm a bit IFFy about is the seizing roles part.. Would my way be the right way we should do it?

Forget it, I've figured it out now... I had the user settings disabled on that GPO.

Hi I have a 2003 domain with an XP environment. User policy says that to force the luna theme on all PC's.. That works fine. Only problem is that now I have put a Windows 7 PC in my existing environment and its forcing the Windows 7 PC to display a Windows 95 looking start bar. I have put the Windows 7 PC in its own OU, I have a policy in the Windows 7 OU to enable loopback processing (Merge). I have then edited the user settings on that policy to disable the luna theme. IT doesn't work... What am I doing wrong?

Yes I am logged in as a Domain Adminstrator when trying to run this.. Still get permission denied error. The profile is not in use so I can't see why it doesn't allow me to delete it. If I right click on the profile folder and select delete it deletes without a problem.

Same problem occurs "Permission Denied Error"

Ok so I have done this: But it don't seem to do anything! ON ERROR RESUME NEXT dim oktodelete, fso, f, foldercollection set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") set f = fso.getfolder("C:\Users") set foldercollection = f.subfolders for each folder in foldercollection if instr(1, folder.path, "user1") then oktodelete = true else oktodelete = false end if if instr(1, folder.path, "User2") then oktodelete = true else oktodelete = false end if if oktodelete then 'wscript.echo "Deleting Folder : " & folder.path Act.Run("takeown /A /f " & Chr(34) & folder.Path & chr(34)),1,True Act.Run("icacls " & Chr(34) & folder.Path & chr(34) & " /grant administrators:F"),1,True fso.deletefolder folder.path, true end if next

Thanks I will give that a try!

Yeah I thought it might be down to permissions... Do you know of any examples to get me started?

Yeah but the theme in gpo is a user policy and those users roam between xp and win 7

Hi I have the following script for cleaning profiles but I can't make it work with Windows 7. I think Windows 7 handles profiles differently by creating registry entries... Does anybody have any links to a windows 7 profile cleaning script? ON ERROR RESUME NEXT ' Clears user profiles on computer startup ' leaves the following folders ' Administrator ' RM Default User ' Default User ' All Users ' Reference : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9kcx47hd.aspx dim oktodelete, fso, f, foldercollection set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") set f = fso.getfolder("C:\Users") set foldercollection = f.subfolders for each folder in foldercollection oktodelete = true if instr(1, folder.path, "Administrator") then oktodelete = false end if if instr(1, folder.path, "Default") then oktodelete = false end if if instr(1, folder.path, "Public") then oktodelete = false end if if instr(1, folder.path, "Administrator.MYDOMAIN") then oktodelete = false end if if instr(1, folder.path, "LocalService") then oktodelete = false end if if instr(1, folder.path, "NetworkService") then oktodelete = false end if if oktodelete then 'wscript.echo "Deleting Folder : " & folder.path fso.deletefolder folder.path, true end if next

I have a Majority Windows XP network but I have now added a Windows 7 PC into the Mix. Mostly after a bit of messing around with a few scripts it works just fine. The only thing that I can't seem to find a way around is that fact that Windows 7 defaults to an ugly windows Classic looking start bar. Group Policy says that users must have the Lunar theme in XP which I want , but how can I force the Aero looking start menu for windows 7 users when they are being told to use the Lunar one by Group Policy. I'm aware that specifiying lunar theme in group policy will make windows 7 look like windows 95 because the Lunar theme doesn't exist on Windows 7. But my question is that does anybody know of any way I can get around this problem? Reg hack .. whatever. Thanks

Hi I have set up TS Remote APP server with Web Access to the remote apps. My question is that why do users have to type their credentials 2 times in order to run an application. So what I'm saying is: The user logs into the Remote app web page and is asked for their details. They type: domainname\username .. passw... this gets them to the applications and now when they go to run an application they are given another pop up asking for the same authentication details to run the application. Why is this?

Ultra VNC was the cause of the black background

I changed the background to jpg instead but still after 10 seconds the background disappears and I get a lovely black desktop. I wonder if it has something to do with Ultra VNC running on the PC.