Change the default location of the user profiles in Windows 2003 Server

Goal is to define an alternate location for user profiles; move them from the C: drive to a different drive due to space allocation. I want to store the terminal server profiles on a different drive.

In the registry find:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

ProfilesDirectory:C:\Documents and Settings

Change to:

ProfilesDirectory:X:\Documents and Settings

**Note** Existing Profiles will remain under C:\Documents And Settings; you'll need to move these profiles manually.

New users will have there profile created in the location you specified.

There is also an administrative template which enables you to set the default place teminal server profiles. You can find this template at following location in the group policy editor:

Computer Configuration\Administraive Templates\Windows Components\Terminal Services\Set Path for TS Roaming Prifiles.

Printers on Server 2003

OK, so I've been using Server 2003 for quite some time now, and kinda surprised I've never seen this before.

When in the printers and faxes window, you can right click in the empty space to change ports, remove old drivers, change Forms and change Advanced printer settings.

This is useful when you need to add a printer to a Terminal Server for users. Also, it seems that Xerox printers do not install drivers by default in Terminal Services, so installing/adding the universal printer drivers ahead of time seems to help.