The Set path for TS Roaming Profiles and TS User Home Directory Group Policy settings do not work with user environment variables

RAPID PUBLISHING ARTICLES PROVIDE INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO EMERGING OR UNIQUE TOPICS, AND MAY BE UPDATED AS NEW INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.

On a Windows Server 2003-based server, you configure the following Group Policy settings to specify the profiles path and the home directories for terminal servers:

• Set path for TS Roaming Profiles
• TS User Home Directory

Note These settings are located in the following directory:

Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Terminal Services

When you configure the Group Policy settings, you specify the profile path and the home directory by using some user environment variables.

For example, you set the Profile path field in the Set path for TS Roaming Profiles Group Policy setting to the following path:

Or, you set the Home Dir Root Path field in the TS User Home Directory Group Policy setting to the following path:

In this case, the profile path and home directory root path are not redirected as specified in the corresponding Group Policy settings.

Note These Group Policy settings are available in Windows Server 2003 SP1 and later versions.

This issue occurs because the Winlogon process is not initialized in the registry. Therefore, the Winlogon process cannot read user environment variables.

To work around this issue, do not use user environment variables in these two Group Policy settings.

For more information about how to use Group Policy to manage Terminal Services users in Windows Server 2003, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

MICROSOFT AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THIS WEBSITE COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. MICROSOFT AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR THE PROGRAM(S) DESCRIBED HEREIN AT ANY TIME.

For more information about the terms of use, visit the following Microsoft Web site: