Local and domain user profiles
Hi all, This is my question: Is there some way to force a user load his local profile instead of the one that correspond to the domain when he authenticate to this one. The context is this: a laptop with Windows Seven Pro needs to be in a domain in order to work and load the same profile when the owner goes home. The DC is a Windows Server 2008 R2. I posted here because in my opinion the solution, if there is one, is in the local machine where the two profile folders are created. I hope you understand my problem. Thanks in advance, Fernando.
August 27th, 2010 5:35pm

"laptop with Windows Seven Pro needs to be in a domain in order to work and load the same profile when the owner goes home." In your domain if you enable logon cache in your GPO's the user will be able to logon with their domain credentials while home even if they cannot authenticate to the domain controller. Computer configuration\windows settings\security settings\local policies\security options\Interactive logon number of previous logons to cache HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon is the registry path you'd want to change.
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August 27th, 2010 9:56pm

Hello cschaar, thanks for your help. I am doing what you said and everything goes fine. Now I would like to know if the profile the gp force to load when I am not connect to the domain is the same (have the same information) than the one that loads when I am.
August 30th, 2010 4:19pm

" if the profile the gp force to load when I am not connect to the domain is the same (have the same information) than the one that loads when I am." The profile would be the domain one, since it's cached locally. If the user cannot logon b/c cache is disabled then you can try to use a local logon.
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August 30th, 2010 7:46pm

Ok, thank you very much for all your help cschaar.
August 31st, 2010 5:48pm

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