Vista Really Not Ready for Network Deployment
December 16, 2007

I've been fooling with domain support on my network recently and have ran into some serious issues with Windows Vista. The first is relatively minor, but fairly annoying. From time to time, when a roaming profile is enabled, Vista will totally forget custom sidebar gadgets. It's terribly infuriating to have to login and then logout and then login again just to get the correct gadgets on my sidebar.

The second issue that Vista has is a rather critical roaming profile issue. I recently had to dejoin my main machine from the domain and restructure it. Upon rejoining the domain, Vista refused to recognize my primary user's profile. Uh-oh!

I traced it down and it seems like Vista is storing user information somewhere on the system in a corrupt state. I have gone through all the recovery steps, disabled roaming profiles and even removing the local version of that profile all to no avail. At this point Vista is bitching about it's inability to load the profile (when it's been totally removed, and roaming profiles are completely disabled on the domain) and I'm done with it. The error is tied to the actual username and not the account itself. I've removed the account from the domain and all local references to the user data. If this were a client installation I can't even imagine how badly this would look.

If a box that was setup two days ago can demonstrate this problem, I really have to say that Windows Vista is not domain ready.

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