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by arief

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I had created a user profile in xp pro workstation and setup desktop preferences. Then run regedt32 HKEY_CURRENT_USER and on security added domain users permissions full control. Also in advanced button reset the permission on all child objects?. Then copied the profile to server as default roaming profile. I did not assign home directory. Server is window 2000.
Well it worked out fine when users logged in they got the new profile. Except a big problem with outlook. Users lost the outlook profile. When outlook started a massage said the outlook.pst has changed location. I tried to copy the old one back to new location (c:\doucmentand setting\user\Application data\Microsoft\outlook) but it only worked as long as user section was current after they logged out they would lose it again. Also they email account disappeared. Another strange thing is on some users the profile point to outlook.pst of another user!
Well as you have guess by now I?m totally confuse.
(no exchange server)
Any idea where I went wrong?
Thanks

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by haileyan

Well I never did anything to the registry when setting up a default profile. I would put a default PRF in new user's folders. At login my login script would check for the default PRF and apply it if it existed and then delete it after applying it.

The rest is simply a matter of setting up a profile the way you like and then copy the profile folder into Default user profile folder in C:\Documents and Settings\Default User

Check out this TechNote for deploying Outlook.

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