Vista - Profiles

After Installing Vista RC1 (build 5600), the local account that was created
during the setup process creates a local profile on the machine at login,
after joining to a domain, any domain account that is used to login creates a
roaming profile. I am unable to change to a local profile. I have tried the
following scenarios:

Give admin rights to the domain account before first login
logging in with the local admin account and attempting to change profile
from local to roaming.
Reformatted the machine and reinstalled OS
It appears this is the default path Vista takes on a domain account. Another
thought I had was to look at the group policies on the Domain account and I
do not see anything requiring a roaming profile as a matter of fact, it's
been explicitly disabled. Our Windows XP and 2000 clients can not enable
roaming profiles. Has anyone noticed this and have a fix? I get a temporary
profile with every domain login session.

Hi Scott,

This is a known security test going on with Vista Pre-release builds.

The FIX for your problem is:

1. When you join the machine the machine to the domain, at that time when it
ask you to reboot, do not reboot
2. Instead go to the Control Panel and under User and Account Settings, add
your domain user name to the Administrator Group
3. Then you can safely log off and log back in

The BUG here is
1. When you join the machine to the domain, the default Administrator
account gets locked out
2. Before joining the machine to the domain, users have to create another
administrator Account on the local machine (which is way beyond expectation
for layman)
3. Then you logon to the new user account on the local machine which is a
part of the administrator group and then join the machine to the domain.

*****If you miss the step of creating a new Administrative user account
before joining the machine to the domain, mind you, you would have to rebuild
the Vista image and start all over from scratch******

"Scott Putney" wrote:

> After Installing Vista RC1 (build 5600), the local account that was created
> during the setup process creates a local profile on the machine at login,
> after joining to a domain, any domain account that is used to login creates a
> roaming profile. I am unable to change to a local profile. I have tried the
> following scenarios:
>
> Give admin rights to the domain account before first login
> logging in with the local admin account and attempting to change profile
> from local to roaming.
> Reformatted the machine and reinstalled OS
> It appears this is the default path Vista takes on a domain account. Another
> thought I had was to look at the group policies on the Domain account and I
> do not see anything requiring a roaming profile as a matter of fact, it's
> been explicitly disabled. Our Windows XP and 2000 clients can not enable
> roaming profiles. Has anyone noticed this and have a fix? I get a temporary
> profile with every domain login session.