DCMCD Fixes

If you live in a world with a wonderful piece of software which forces you to stick to usernames no longer than 12 characters long, then you may need to recreate user accounts to adhere to these naming structures.  But what if the account is already in full use by the user? Have no fear, the steps below are tried and tested and work perfectly. Please note, these steps only cover accounts that are MS Active Directory accounts with MS Exchange mailboxes. If you are using the likes of Citrix or home folder shares etc you will need additional steps.  I will be creating another post HERE for the full run-down on the steps required for an AD, mail-enabled account on a Citrix environment with home shares.  Take a look at this post also as it may be more suited to your setup! Open Active Directory Users and Computers Navigate to the Employees Organizational Unit (OU) Right-click on the name of the employee for the name change and select Rename Rename the empl...

Background From time to time you may notice that when logging into your Windows 7 machine, the system will throw you up a message stating that you are being logged in with a temporary profile.  Once logged in with this temporary profile you will be greeted by nothing apart from a nice clean desktop with only the Recycling Bin to keep you company. If you try and browse to your documents via the normal methods then you will find nothing. Don't fret!  Your profile and associated files, settings etc should be fine.  To check this is the case take a look within the following location on your machine: C:\Windows\Users\[username] Should you find yourself in this situation simply carry out the following steps and this should resolve your issues. Resolution  Log into your system via local administrator account or with your standard credentials (the temporary profile) Open the Registry Editor by typing " regedit " in the find box within the Windows 7 Start menu...