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Change User Profile Folder Location in Vista « Joshua Mouch. Here lies my experience moving my entire User Profile folder structure, including Default, Public, and any local users.

Change User Profile Folder Location in Vista « Joshua Mouch

In my search for a solution, the only two easy ways I found to move the user profile directory locations from the system drive is to Set the User Profile folder during setup using an unattended install file.Move the individual folders inside your user profile, which can be done using explorer (which will update the registry keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders). However, this was not good enough for me, I wanted my actual user profile folder to be moved to a seperate partition/volume, including registry settings. I discovered that it is not actually that hard, provided you’re comfortable with mass replacing registry keys and values. How to Change User Profile Default Location in Windows 7. Active Directory Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell. Windows PowerShell™ is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language designed especially for system administration.

Active Directory Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell

This reference topic for the information technology (IT) professional introduces the 76 Windows PowerShell cmdlets that you can use to manage and administer the Active Directory® directory service and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). What does the Active Directory module do? Windows PowerShell.