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Windows 7 vs. Windows Server 2003

Jckf — Tue, 12/15/2009 - 00:11

My user profiles share has restrictions set on it to prevet users from reading each other's files. This broke compatibility with Windows 7 clients. Why? Because Windows 7 profile are not compatible with older ones, so the Windows 7 machine will try to use .V2 as the profile path. That doesn't exists, so it will atempt to create it, and fail. This results in the user being logged on with a temporary profile, and changes not being saved.

The solution is to create a folder named %USERNAME%.V2 for each user in addition to the regular %USERNAME% one. To make the two "different" profiles share desktop/my documents/application settings, enable folder redirection.

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