Coexisting with Earlier Versions of Windows
Coexistence is an issue that affects roaming user profiles only. If you’re not using roaming user profiles on your network, coexistence isn’t an issue because you won’t be deploying user profiles to different versions of Windows. In general, though, roaming user profiles are compatible between Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional. Here are a few precautions you can take to minimize problems:
Try to make sure that users with roaming user profiles are logging into the same version of Windows on each computer. You should choose your rollout units so that you’re picking up all the computers that users in a unit use.
At the very least, make sure that the same application versions are on each computer and ...
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