Eudmin

Hello, After installing the Win2000 SP4 rollup yesterday I now see domain printers without any installed features. The big one that is missing is duplex printing. Duplex is installed on the Win 2003 server and it worked yesterday from the Win 2000 machine, but not anymore. Also, in the System event log I am seeing a whole bunch of events telling me that the printer driver files for my printers have been updated. They still work fine from an XP machine, by the way, and also look fine if I log on to the server. Anyone have an idea what gives? Thanks.

I am also seeing this with an install disk I created using nLite. So if I just leave everything in the nLite install under drivers it should work fine without constantly asking me to go to Windows Update every time I plug in a new Microsoft Mouse?

I recently upgraded an XPPro machine to XP Service Pack 2 to a machine and now when I try to manage it over the network I get the message \\machinename cannot be managed because it is not running Windows NT but if I click OK, that I want to manage it anyway it all seems to work. While it works it shows a red X over the computer name. Anyone have any ideas for what is going on?

Every time I reboot my 2k3 server the Licensing service loses all of its "Purchased Licenses" and then my logs start filling with Error 202 events for unlicensed usage. I am actually interested in using this Licensing service to try to figure out if we need to buy more CALs so I would like for it to work. Any way to get it to keep the licenses I add? Thanks in advance.

I had read a lot of these things, and read the whitepapers, but none of them seemed to tell me how to do what I wanted to do. They all just offer the same formulas similar to what you have reposted here. I think I may have discovered what I did wrong, however, from rereading the whitepapers. I redirected "My Documents" into the "My Documents" folder that existed on the share for the roaming profiles. Does that make sense? Say the username is joeuser. I have a share on my server called \\server\profiles that the roaming profiles go in. I had redirected "My Documents" for joeuser to \\server\profiles\joeuser\My Documents. This means that it is in the same location that the non-redirected profile files would be. Perhaps there is some conflict where the client machine is going through every single file that is in that remote My Documents folder because it is a part of the roaming profile, and only after doing that it decides to redirect it to that location or something. Is it a rule to have the target of the redirected folder be in a different share from the profile directory? None of the whitepapers came out and said that, but that seems to be the case from the examples.

I am just now setting up a Windows 2k3 domain (we are currently just using a workgroup) for about 50 users. I have started giving folks domain accounts instead of their old local accounts and have started transferring their profiles to the domain accounts. I would like for the secretaries to have roaming profiles, but all of them have pretty big My Documents folders (>5Gb) and so I set the My Documents folder up to be redirected instead of roaming using Group Policy. I did this for one of the secretaries by logging her in with her new domain account and then copied the contents of her old My Documents folder into the new redirected one. It took a very long time to do it (I assume because it had to transfer it all over the network) and then took forever to log her off while it was synchronizing files. Now she goes to log back on and it is taking forever again! I look at the status of the file server and in the "Open Files" list it seems to be going through every single one of her 2500 files, most of which are decent sized image files. Is this the offline files feature killing the performance? I thought the whole point of redirecting the folder instead of just including it in the roaming profile was to avoid this kind of thing. In the share settings for the profiles share on the server I don't have it configured specifically to do offline files, by the way. Any advice for how to set this up correctly? I basically followed the whitepaper recommendations that I was able to find at microsoft.com, and am seeing this result. Also, any suggestions for good references on how to move lots of users profiles from local ones to domain ones? I have not found many books that describe how to do it. The "Copy Profile" function in the profile manager doesn't seem to work because the ntuser.dat file is still for the local account, not the domain one. Should the domain one log in once to make a new ntuser.dat, then save that one, then copy the profile over, then replace the ntuser.dat?