I am sysadmin for a small business with 30 clients.
We have a server running windows 2003 and all the client-computers run windows XP.
Now this is not an important issue, but it would be nice if it worked.
My personal (home) computer is running windows 7 RC.
When I bring my home-computer to work and log into the network with domain\username it logs me in just fine.
Although, approving my profile, letting me into the network, including all network drives and printers, it does not download the profile fully. I do believe it might be getting the roaming profiles.
So all my user- items, documents etc. attached to the profile does not show up on Windows 7.
Is there any way to make it fully download the profile? as it does with Windows XP.
Best Answer
Windows XP profiles are not compatible with Vista/W7 profiles out of the box. Microsoft has a whitepaper Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide which includes a section called 'Windows Vista and Windows XP Roaming User Profile Interoperability'. This document contains the details you need to get as much compatibility as possible on Vista, I believe most of the directions should be the same for Windows 7.