Is it possible to prestage a domain account on a PC without it being attached to the domain? I have used the djoin.exe to perform an offline domain join, however want to create the user account account in order to preconfigure the profile before the user physically connects to the domain.

Hello, creating the profile requires the user to logon, it is not only the folder stucture, there are registry keys and also policies applied to the machine/user during logon.Best regards Meinolf Weber MVP, MCP, MCTS Microsoft MVP - Directory Services My Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/mweber/ Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.

Hello, creating the profile requires the user to logon, it is not only the folder stucture, there are registry keys and also policies applied to the machine/user during logon.Best regards Meinolf Weber MVP, MCP, MCTS Microsoft MVP - Directory Services My Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/mweber/ Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.