New AD user, question on profiles/printers

[mzodun]

Hi, we are new to AD from NT4 to 2003. What settings do we need to configure to have user profiles roam? Also, say we want all users in a certain OU to have the same printers installed wherever they log in to the domain, is that possible?

 

[markdmac]

Your roaming profiles work the same as they did in the NT4 world so you should have no problems there.

For your printers, just configure a login script to map the printers.

Here is a sample login script that does this and more for you to look at.

'==========================================================================
'
' NAME: LogonScript.vbs
'
' AUTHOR:  Mark D. MacLachlan, The Spider's Parlor
' URL   : [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.thespidersparlor.com[/URL]
' DATE  : 4/10/2003
'
' COMMENT: Enumerates current users' group memberships in given domain.
'
'==========================================================================


ON ERROR RESUME NEXT

Set WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set WSHNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")

'Edit the next line with your domain name
DomainString = "DomainName"
UserString = WSHNetwork.UserName
'Bind to the user object to get user name and check for group memberships later
Set UserObj = GetObject("WinNT://" & DomainString & "/" & UserString)

'Synchronizes the time with Server our NTP Server
WSHShell.Run "NET TIME \\Server /set /y"

'Disconnect any drive mappings as needed.
WSHNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive "F:"

'Give the PC time to do the disconnect, wait 300 milliseconds
wscript.sleep 300

'Map drives needed by all
WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "U:", "\\server\users",True
WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "X:", "\\server\executables",True

'Now check for group memberships and map appropriate drives
For Each GroupObj In UserObj.Groups
	Select Case GroupObj.Name
	'Check for group memberships and take needed action
	'In this example below, ADMIN and WORKERB are groups.
		Case "Admin"
			WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "w:", "\\Server\Admin Stuff",True
		Case "WorkerB"
			WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive "w:", "\\Server\Shared Documents",True
	End Select
Next


'Install Printers

WSHNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\Server\HP5si"

'Clean Up Memory We Used
set UserObj = Nothing
set GroupObj = Nothing
set WSHNetwork = Nothing
set DomainString = Nothing
set WSHSHell = Nothing

'Quit the Script
wscript.quit

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark