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Profile Changes In Windows Vista/Longhorn Server |
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Friday, 01 September 2006
by Michel Roth
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This is an early heads-up from Aaron Parker upcoming profile changes in Longhorn Server (and Windows Vista of course): "Windows Vista and Longhorn Server introduce a number of new user profile paths and environment variables that differ from earlier versions of Windows and these changes may have an impact on scripts such as logon scripts and application install scripts. Most scripts should work correctly - VBScript scripts that use system functions to find folder paths should work as expected, however batch scripts that use environment variables or hard codes scripts will require modifications."
"There are also differences in environment variables between the new version of Windows and the older versions."
"In practice, I've found that scripts that reference locations such as %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop, are not performing actions as intended and will have to be updated to use %PUBLIC% instead. Certainly something that requires more investigation."
Read the entire article (including the changed paths) here.
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