Hello,

we recently had to replace a defective PC and the new PC came with Vista
preinstalled. So we thought it would be a good idea to try it out.

I joined the Vista PC to our 2003 Server Active Directory Domain (previously
a 2000 AD, but the 2000 Server is now only a Fileserver for the roaming
profiles).

Now everytime I log in, I get a speech bubble in the lower right telling me,
that my profile was not loaded correctly, and that I'm now signed in with a
temporary profile.

However, when I go to a Windows XP PC right next to the Vista PC, I can log
in without problems, and my profile gets copied from the server.

I found several websites about this problem, but all sites I found deal with
stand alone PC's where Vista has to deal with a corrupted user profile, and
the user should delete his User directory and delete a backup registry key
of his unique identifier.

However, this is of no help in my case, as Vista doesn't have my user
directory in the "User" directory, and also not the *.bak entry in the
registry.

Even newly created domain users get a temporary profile in Vista, and if
logged in via Windows XP, it neatly creates a roaming profile for the user
and stores it on the server.

How do I convince Vista to just get the roaming profile?
I already forced Vista via Group Policy to wait for the network before
logon, to no avail.

With kind regards,
Michael Arm

P.S. The new PC had a Windows XP downgrade license, so it's currently
working with XP, but that's not a "future proof" solution in the long run...

>we recently had to replace a defective PC and the new PC came with Vista[color=blue]
>preinstalled[/color]

you replaced a defective pc with a new one that has a defective OS, also
known as vista.


"Michael Arm" <muellcollectingbox********.com> wrote in message
news:#wgbfeGYJHA.556@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> we recently had to replace a defective PC and the new PC came with Vista
> preinstalled. So we thought it would be a good idea to try it out.
>
> I joined the Vista PC to our 2003 Server Active Directory Domain
> (previously a 2000 AD, but the 2000 Server is now only a Fileserver for
> the roaming profiles).
>
> Now everytime I log in, I get a speech bubble in the lower right telling
> me, that my profile was not loaded correctly, and that I'm now signed in
> with a temporary profile.
>
> However, when I go to a Windows XP PC right next to the Vista PC, I can
> log in without problems, and my profile gets copied from the server.
>
> I found several websites about this problem, but all sites I found deal
> with stand alone PC's where Vista has to deal with a corrupted user
> profile, and the user should delete his User directory and delete a backup
> registry key of his unique identifier.
>
> However, this is of no help in my case, as Vista doesn't have my user
> directory in the "User" directory, and also not the *.bak entry in the
> registry.
>
> Even newly created domain users get a temporary profile in Vista, and if
> logged in via Windows XP, it neatly creates a roaming profile for the user
> and stores it on the server.
>
> How do I convince Vista to just get the roaming profile?
> I already forced Vista via Group Policy to wait for the network before
> logon, to no avail.
>
> With kind regards,
> Michael Arm
>
> P.S. The new PC had a Windows XP downgrade license, so it's currently
> working with XP, but that's not a "future proof" solution in the long
> run...
>[/color]