Vista / XP Roaming Profile

gasaraki1 · 06-22-2008, 06:47 PM

Folks, no doubt this question come up before, I just can't find any information about it ... so if anyone is in the know-how, your help would be appreciated.

This is my scenario (as an example):
I have 3 PCs and 1 DC -- 2 x Windows XP and 1x Windows Vista Ultimate. I have them setup for roaming profile. Now, the question XP machines recognise and load the profile fine... however! Will the Vista PC do the same... or will it just create its own profile on the DC and disregard he profile (ntuser.dat) that the 2 XPs machines use....

Surely, M$ would have been smart enough to make them compatible?

Any help appreciated... I would like to know before I start implementing the above.

Thanks.

**jcgriff2** · 06-22-2008, 09:11 PM

Hi. . .

Unfortunately Vista uses a v2 profile where windows 2000 - windows XP uses v1. But never say never. It can be done and will involve redirection and Vista Junctions. You can read all about it and the potential solution available as written by Mike Stephens in "Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide", which I found a while back on a Microsoft Support site. I have attached the Word Document to this post.

Good Luck to you.

Regards. . .

jcgriff2

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gasaraki1 · 06-22-2008, 09:28 PM

Good man, thanks very much will give it a go...

gasaraki1 · 06-22-2008, 09:32 PM

On second thought looks so complicated... you would think that MS would make it easy... quick patch or some sort of script, the guide goes to far into messing around with the registry and group policy for my liking. Not that I cannot do it... but it just looks messy.

06-22-2008, 06:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
gasaraki1 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 6 OS: XP	Vista / XP Roaming Profile Folks, no doubt this question come up before, I just can't find any information about it ... so if anyone is in the know-how, your help would be appreciated. This is my scenario (as an example): I have 3 PCs and 1 DC -- 2 x Windows XP and 1x Windows Vista Ultimate. I have them setup for roaming profile. Now, the question XP machines recognise and load the profile fine... however! Will the Vista PC do the same... or will it just create its own profile on the DC and disregard he profile (ntuser.dat) that the 2 XPs machines use.... Surely, M$ would have been smart enough to make them compatible? Any help appreciated... I would like to know before I start implementing the above. Thanks.

06-22-2008, 09:28 PM	#3 (permalink)
gasaraki1 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 6 OS: XP	Re: Vista / XP Roaming Profile Good man, thanks very much will give it a go...

06-22-2008, 09:32 PM	#4 (permalink)
gasaraki1 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 6 OS: XP	Re: Vista / XP Roaming Profile On second thought looks so complicated... you would think that MS would make it easy... quick patch or some sort of script, the guide goes to far into messing around with the registry and group policy for my liking. Not that I cannot do it... but it just looks messy.