Using Roaming User Profiles

You configure roaming user profiles on the server, so the user must be a member of and log on to the domain to use a roaming user profile. Both Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server support roaming user profiles, as does Microsoft Windows Server 2003. The following instructions show you how to configure roaming user profiles in Active Directory on Windows 2000 Server:

  1. Create a folder on the server where you want to store user profiles. This is the top-level folder that will contain individual user profile folders.

  2. Share the folder, giving all users full control. (I sometimes reduce users’ permissions to read and execute in this folder, and then give them full control of their individual profile ...

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