s: freakin' IT dept

[cheapie]

our corp IT dept made all of our divisions change our logon domains to one that's common to everyone. which is no big deal 'cept they sent out several emails saying, "just leave your computer on over the weekend. the only change you'll notice is that your account name will be your oracle id. of course i come in monday morning and it's all screwed up. everything on my desktop was gone (luckily, it was under another account name) my outlook is effed up and i can't access anything remotely. i need to get to my contacts and nothing is working. aarrrrghhh!!!! of course i could call our after-hours help desk and talk to our off-site contract it support. :rolleyes:


i'm not cracking on all IT people. just ours.

[whitak24]

but not being able to access your stuff gives you an excuse to come here and post more, right? :D

[Joshua]

Yup..they screwed up your profile. Windows recognizes what Domain you're signing on from and treats each as a new user with a new profile. Even if you use the same username but from a different Domain, Windows thinks it's a new user and will give you the default profile.

I'm suprised your company isn't using roamin profiles which stores your info on a server so that no matter what machine you log in from your desktop etc... stays the same.

If you want your stuff back, Open up Windows Explorer and go to C:\Documents and Settings (in windows xp). You should see your old and new username in there. Just copy everything from the old username folder into the new one. This should give you back your desktop, bookmarks, outlook settings, etc... You may have to do a little tweaking with some things, but it should work for the most part. If your not running Windows XP, lookin c:\windows\profiles and follow the instructions above.

[cheapie]

thx!

[Peachhead]

Hmmm I'm surprised at the common logon thing. Apparently security is no big deal there?
Not that I don't already know the id's and pw's of most of my coworkers...but still :D

and yeah..the profile thing..what he said. :P

[eSDee]

Originally posted by SnotRocket
Yup..they screwed up your profile. Windows recognizes what Domain you're signing on from and treats each as a new user with a new profile. Even if you use the same username but from a different Domain, Windows thinks it's a new user and will give you the default profile.

I'm suprised your company isn't using roamin profiles which stores your info on a server so that no matter what machine you log in from your desktop etc... stays the same.

If you want your stuff back, Open up Windows Explorer and go to C:\Documents and Settings (in windows xp). You should see your old and new username in there. Just copy everything from the old username folder into the new one. This should give you back your desktop, bookmarks, outlook settings, etc... You may have to do a little tweaking with some things, but it should work for the most part. If your not running Windows XP, lookin c:\windows\profiles and follow the instructions above.

Hey snot, recently I added a PC to our Active Directory, so that instead of having to log onto her PC and then log onto the Exchange server, she can just log on once. I knew that I was going to have to recreate her profile(just moved her My Documents) but for some reason now I cannot run regedit in her profile even though she is an Administrator. Do you know why I cannot?

[cheapie]

Originally posted by Peachhead
Hmmm I'm surprised at the common logon thing. Apparently security is no big deal there?
Not that I don't already know the id's and pw's of most of my coworkers...but still :D

and yeah..the profile thing..what he said. :P


a common domain across the corporation, not a common username or password. we have 51,000 employees and all of the different divisions had different domains. they wanted to simplify stuff and have everyone go to the same one. i think. lol.

[Joshua]

What's the error that you get?


Originally posted by eSDeeLoco


Hey snot, recently I added a PC to our Active Directory, so that instead of having to log onto her PC and then log onto the Exchange server, she can just log on once. I knew that I was going to have to recreate her profile(just moved her My Documents) but for some reason now I cannot run regedit in her profile even though she is an Administrator. Do you know why I cannot?