I have moved our domain out of roaming profiles as well, it's only folder redirection now, everything works much better. With shortcuts, I usually control them with GPO but for very specific once, I would login with local administrators account, make all necessary shortcuts and that's about it; when domain user logs in, those shortcuts appear on their desktop. Making shortcuts with in domain account would always brake them for no apparent reason, although, things might have been different now when I have folder redirection only and no roaming profiles. I can't really say they would get broken because of roaming profiles, but I can say for sure that I had a lot of corrupted profiles because of roaming. Kind Regards, Anatoliy -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 7:17 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons Hi, I don't interact with desktop machines at all now as I work on app deployments at my current job. When I was working with desktops I moved to having redirected folders so specific profile folders were moved to the server and accessed from there. A DFS share was controlling replication so the data was sent across multiple servers. It did mean that for example if users logged into another machine then they would have to set up Outlook etc but they didn't seem to mind this as it was a fairly quick process. It also saved us a lot of disk space as well. In my current job I notice very much that people seem to be moving to laptops and they don't move around to other workstations. This was also happening in my old job especially with IT staff. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Eigeldinger Simon [simon.eigeldinger@hohenems.at] Sent: 17 October 2017 14:36 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons Hi Andrew, What are you using now instead of roaming profiles? Is there something i don't know that might be better suited? Because its nice for users and for us to have the profiles on the server. *smile* Mit freundlichen Grüßen Simon Eigeldinger Informatik Nebengebäude 1, OG1 ------------------------- Stadt Hohenems Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 6845 Hohenems Österreich Tel.: +43 5576 7101-1143 Fax: +43 5576 7101-1149 E-Mail: simon.eigeldinger@hohenems.at Web: www.hohenems.at Diese Nachricht und allfällige angehängte Dokumente sind vertraulich und nur für den/die Adressaten bestimmt. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Im Auftrag von Andrew Hodgson Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2017 15:23 An: Blind sysadmins list Betreff: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons Hi, This is all going back a long way now but I seem to remember if I dropped the icons into the public desktop or the All Users desktop people could delete those and they would go forever. Another option could be to use Group Policy Preferences to get the desktop icons, for this, when I was having this issue it was with XP and 2003 DCs, that was how long ago it was. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Eigeldinger Simon [simon.eigeldinger@hohenems.at] Sent: 17 October 2017 12:37 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons Hi Andrew, No we have a pretty homogenized system over here. All are running Office 2010 32 bit. Though we started using roaming profiles a few months ago because to keep settings, desktop icons and stuff. But making groups and dropping icons using scripts or gpo might be an interesting idea. Does it help to drop the most used icons into the machines public desktop? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Simon Eigeldinger Informatik Nebengebäude 1, OG1 ------------------------- Stadt Hohenems Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 6845 Hohenems Österreich Tel.: +43 5576 7101-1143 Fax: +43 5576 7101-1149 E-Mail: simon.eigeldinger@hohenems.at Web: www.hohenems.at Diese Nachricht und allfällige angehängte Dokumente sind vertraulich und nur für den/die Adressaten bestimmt. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Im Auftrag von Andrew Hodgson Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2017 10:29 An: Blind sysadmins list Betreff: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons Hi, Back in the days when I used such things I got this from time to time. I created a group for users who want Office on the desktop, then had a login script which copied the shortcuts for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook from the All Users folder to the desktop so it overwrote the existing file that was there. I spent ages trying to identify why it happened in the first place but I did have it. I eventually got rid of roaming profiles altogether and had a much easier life. If you have workstations with differing Office versions this did cause issues as you could end up with multiple version icons on the desktop. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Simon Eigeldinger via Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: 16 October 2017 18:58 To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Simon Eigeldinger Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons Hi, No all are 32 bit versions. the shortcuts where created manually by hand by basically going to the start menu and going to all programs and microsoft office and from there the icons are send to the desktop. Greetings, Simon Am 16.10.2017 um 18:45 schrieb Ratha Moeuy:

Is it possible that some machines has office Office 64bit and some has 32bit installed? Are shortcuts manually created within a template profile and used for romaing profile or were the shortcuts distributed via GPO?

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Eigeldinger Simon Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 9:56 AM To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons

Hi all,

Anyone has seen that or knows how to fix it?

We have Windows 2008 R2 servers and Windows 7 Pro 64 bit machines. We have roaming profiles enabled to make it easy for the user to change machines and for us as well.

Now we figured out that often the desktop icons are broken. llike ms word and excel icons can't open excel on another machine. though the software is the same. its even the same location it should find its exe file.

Anyone knows what causes this issue that desktop icons get broken using roaming profiles?

Greetings and thanks, Simon

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